# @sachistorymuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DWEaXV_gQPW
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/60395939-sachistorymuseum-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-03-19T14:15:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sacramento History Museum (@sachistorymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/sachistorymuseum

## Caption

On March 19, 1851, the first edition of The Daily Union was published. The newspaper started out in response to the Placer Times and Sacramento Transcript cutting costs in their newspaper offices which cut wages for much of the employees. Many of he typesetters, reporters, and printers unionized and left to establish their own paper, hence the name The Daily Union. Dr. John Frederick Morse was the newspaper’s first editor. The first Union building was located on J Street between Front and Second Streets. 

One of the most notable reporters for the Union was Mark Twain, who was hired in 1866. Twain convinced the newspaper to send him to Hawaii, where he dispatched 25 letters for eager Union readers.  While having minor name changes over its lifetime, the Union was the oldest daily newspaper west of the Mississippi and ran for 143 years until the Sacramento Union ceased publication on January 14, 1994.

In this video, Jared discusses the history of the Union, shows a reproduction copy of one of the first editions, and letterpress printed its last name before the printing office closed in 1994. “Sacramento Union” was typeset in 15 line pica wood type that was made in the 1880s. This was printed with red oil base ink using our Washington hand press, which is a very similar press that would have been used to print the daily newspaper in the 1850s. 

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