# @sachistorymuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DT-ozayFEv7
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/54377579-sachistorymuseum-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-01-26T15:20:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sacramento History Museum (@sachistorymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/sachistorymuseum

## Caption

If you have been following our videos about our print shop exhibit at the Sacramento History Museum, we often print woodcuts and electrotypes (copies of woodcuts) from the Lewis Winter Collection. Lewis Winter had a wood and photo engraving business at 627 J Street in Sacramento from 1888 to 1910. We know that many of his cuts were used in ads in local newspapers and catalogs. All we have in the collection are the cuts themselves, and not any records of their use. 

It is through our own research that we can determine the original use of these materials. One of the ways to research is to look at old newspapers. For today, Jared printed an electrotype that was used in an advertisement published on January 26, 1897 in the Sacramento Daily Record Union. This was used in an ad for the tailor business owned by J. H. Heitman. This is how we can say this cut was made at least 126 years ago. This was printed with purple oil base ink using our Washington hand press.

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