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October 20th is International Chefs Day, a day to honor chefs who are experts in preparing, cooking, presenting, and serving food. In honor of today, Howard prints and serves up a small electrotype from the Stockton High School Print Shop Collection. This collection contains a wide variety of small cuts, a lot being businesses, from the 1960s. This electrotype has suffered some damage over the years, however. #SacHistoryMuseum #InternationalChefsDay #chef #museum #letterpress #printing
Martin Luther also published his 95 theses with a wooden printing press. #SacHistoryMuseum #museum #letterpress #printingpress
Sometimes even with the most obscure “national holidays,” we can find connections to our collections in our print shop exhibit. October 21st is National Witch Hazel Day! Today is supposed to celebrate the witch hazel plant and its cleansing properties. Since extracts of witch hazel were often advertised in local newspapers, like the Sacramento Daily Union, by the 1890s, it can explain why a woodcut of a bottle of witch hazel would be in the Lewis Winter Collection. This hand carved woodcut was made about 130 years ago. However, we have no record of its use in any publication. #NationalWitchHazelDay #witchhazel #SacHistoryMuseum #museum #letterpress #asmr #printing
October 21st is American Frog Day! In honor of today, Jared used some Pantone Green ink to print an image of a frog taking an unexpected mode of transportation. This 120-130 year old electrotype is from the Lewis Winter Collection. Lewis Winter was a wood and photo engraver who had his business at 627 J Street from 1888 to 1910. We don’t know the backstory of this cut, but it isn’t the only cut of an animal riding a penny farthing in his collection. Interested in this print? We have these prints now available in our museum store as part of a set of absurd and weird prints from the Lewis Winter Collection! #SacHistoryMuseum #frog #frogs #museum #letterpress #asmr #printing #printingpress
October 22nd is International Caps Lock Day and Howard discusses the keyboard on the large machine in our print shop exhibit that doesn’t have a caps lock key. Our Model 8 Linotype was made in 1913. While this Linotype is operational, we lack the power and ventilation to operate it. #SacHistoryMuseum #linotype #capslock #museum #letterpress
We are in disbelief folks. Because of our support on @TikTok, we have reached a new milestone on one of our other social media accounts. In this video, Howard letterpress prints the big announcement. We hope this headline leaves a good impression! Thank you all so much for your support! #SacHistoryMuseum #museum #headline #letterpress #printingpress #printing #sacramento
As Halloween approaches, and also for the month-long celebration of Octobereen, we are printing some of the letterpress cuts in our print shop exhibit that fit the holiday. In this video, Jared prints an image from a modern photo engraving, which was made about 20 years ago. This was used to help promote a previous Halloween festival that was held in Old Sacramento. #SacHistoryMuseum #museum #halloween #octobereen #letterpress #printing
On October 24, 1861, the first transcontinental telegraph message was transmitted to the California State Telegraph Company’s office at J and 3rd Streets, just east of Old Sacramento. The Overland Pony Express Company mail service stopped operations two days later. Construction of the telegraph line began in July 1861 in Missouri. The nearly half a million dollar project was largely made possible by the passing of the Telegraph Act of 1860. The telegraph made Sacramento the hub for communication between California and the eastern United States. For today, Jared letterpress printed an electrotype of a halftone of a rider having a bit of difficulty with his horse. #SacHistoryMuseum #telegraph #museum #letterpress #printing #halftone #horse
⚠️Potential unsettling content ⚠️ Continuing with discussing all thing spooky as we approach Halloween, Susan discusses a popular way families in the mid to late 1800s remembered a loved one who recently passed. Sometimes a post-mortem photograph was the only photo that existed of the individual. #SacHistoryMuseum #photography #victorian #museum #octobereen #halloween
If you've watched our videos of our print shop exhibit, you've probably heard the name Lewis Winter referenced as the collection containing many of our letterpress woodcuts and electrotypes (copies of woodcuts). Who was Lewis Winter though? Winter was a wood and photo engraver, who had his shop at 627 J Street in Sacramento from 1888 to 1910. He would go on to teach art at Sacramento High School until 1925. In this video, Jared prints one of Lewis Winter’s business logos from an over 125 year old woodcut for #InternationalArtistDay today. #SacHistoryMuseum #artist #museum #letterpress #printing #sacramento #art #history
To keep your nose to the grindstone means to work hard and focus on the task at hand. We don’t know what this print is trying to communicate though. We don’t know why Lewis Winter made this electrotype (copy of a woodcut) about 130 years ago, but it is certainly one of the stranger and absurd cuts in his collection. In this video, Jared prints a few copies in green rubber base ink using a 3x5 Kelsey Excelsior tabletop printing press. This print is now for sale, as part of a bundle, in our museum store! #SacHistoryMuseum #museum #letterpress #asmr #printing
On October 26, 1858 a certain machine was invented by Hamilton Smith that would greatly decrease the time and labor needed for a common household chore. Washing machine for doing laundry have certainly evolved since Smith’s invention. In honor of today, Jared printed an image of a 130 year old washing machine. The electrotype (copy of a woodcut) is from the Lewis Winter Collection. While this is not an 1850s washing machine, what is depicted in the print, from the late 1880s, would have been used in advertising in a local newspaper here in Sacramento. #SacHistoryMuseum #washingmachine #museum #letterpress #printing #printingpress #sacramento
Since October 26th is International Print Day, here’s inking a 3x5 Kelsey Excelsior tabletop printing press to print an image of a late 1700s wooden common press. The ink is a violet oil base ink. #SacHistoryMuseum #InternationalPrintDay #museum #letterpress #printingpress #asmr #printing
On October 27, 1853, construction began on Sacramento’s planned waterworks building at the corner of Front and I Streets. The demand for a waterworks building grew as Sacramento suffered from many devastating fires in the city’s infancy. The Waterworks opened in April 1854. It was the first mechanical municipal water system in not only Sacramento, but it was reputed to be the first west of the Rocky Mountains. The building also served as City Hall with the mayor’s office, fire department, jail, and court. The weight of the rooftop water tanks caused structural damage and the building was later converted into the city prison. Its location to the railroad line caused further damage and most offices were removed by 1880. In 1912 the building was condemned and demolished the next year. A reconstruction of the City Hall and Waterworks building was finished in 1985 and houses our Museum in Old Sacramento! #SacHistoryMuseum #TodayInHistory #museum #letterpress #printingpress #asmr #history
Hi, my name is Jared and I’m the Digital Content Coordinator at the Sacramento History Museum and president of the Howard the Printer fan club. #SacHistoryMuseum #museum #letterpress #swifttok #taylorswift
Halloween in the early 1900s in Sacramento was a lot different than how we celebrate the holiday today. In this video, Shawn discusses what became known as “Mischief Night” in Sacramento. We do not condone Mischief Night making a comeback. #SacHistoryMuseum #halloween #museum #sacramento #edutok
Field trip season has begun! We have a variety of educational school programs that are available in person at our museum, as a virtual field trip, and also as outreach programs in the classroom. In this video, Zoey discusses our Gold Rush program, which includes a print shop presentation. One of the demonstrations in the print shop presentation is printing a headline using of our Washington hand press, made in 1852. #SacHistoryMuseum #fieldtrip #teachers #museum #sacramento #letterpress #printingpress
Since October 28th is National Chocolate Day, here’s some chocolate brown rubber base ink and a print of a cacao pod. This hand carved woodcut, made about 130 years ago, is from the Lewis Winter Collection. The press used is a 3x5 Kelsey Excelsior tabletop printing press. #SacHistoryMuseum #NationalChocolateDay #chocolate #museum #letterpress #asmr #printingpress
October 29th is National Cat Day! Keeping up with highlighting some of the absurd and strange letterpress cuts this month, Howard printed an electrotype (copy of a woodcut) made about 125-130 years ago from the Lewis Winter Collection. Like this item printed, there are other cuts made by Lewis Winter in the collection that depict animals doing out of the ordinary activities. #SacHistoryMuseum #NationalCatDay #catsoftiktok #cat #museum #letterpress #printingpress #printing #Octobereen
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