April 3rd is American Circus Day! This day commemorates the anniversary of the first circus performance in the United States, which took place on April 3, 1793 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For today, Jared letterpress printed the largest halftone that we have in our print shop at the Sacramento History Museum, which is a poster for the circus performer, Clyde Beatty. This halftone was made in the 1930s. This was printed with black rubber base ink using our Washington hand press. This halftone
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April 3rd is American Circus Day! This day commemorates the anniversary of the first circus performance in the United States, which took place on April 3, 1793 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For today, Howard letterpress printed the largest halftone that we have in our print shop, which is a poster for the circus performer, Clyde Beatty. This halftone was made in the 1930s. This was printed with reflex blue rubber base ink using our Washington hand press. This halftone is so large, two pulls of
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May 11th is National Train Day this year! It is observed on the closest Saturday to the anniversary (May 10) of the the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869. For today, Howard letterpress printed one of our new pieces in our shop from the Bill from Chico Collection. This large halftone depicts Pennsylvania Railroad engine #5409, a K-4S (4-6-2). Nicknamed the
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April 23rd is World Book Day! It is a day to encourage reading of all ages. In honor of today, Howard letterpress printed a large halftone from the California State Printing Office’s Book Binding Department in 1914. Halftones were used to introduce photography in newspapers and books starting in the late 1880s. The pictures in halftones are broken into a series of equally spaced dots of varying size. #WorldBookDay #WorldBookDay2023 #SacHistoryMuseum #booktok #books #bookbinding #museum #letterpr
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March 28th is Barnum & Bailey Day. It is on this day in 1881 that P.T. Barnum and James Bailey combined their acts and opened a 3-ring circus for the first time in Madison Square Garden. We're going to be honest folks, we do not have anything related to Barnum & Bailey. However, the largest halftone that we have in our print shop pertains to another circus performer, Clyde Beatty. In this video, Howard letterpress prints the halftone, which was made in the 1930s, using our Washington handpress.
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June 17th is Global Garbage Man Day! This day honors the men and women in the waste management profession, especially those that travel down your street once a week to collect waste. For today, Jared letterpress printed an image from a halftone of an old garbage truck. This letterpress cut is from the Frank Cowsert Collection. Halftones were used to introduce photography in newspapers and books starting in the late 1880s. The pictures in halftones are broken into a series of equally spaced dots
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