# @sachistorymuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DW3g2sIBqHd
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/62880445-sachistorymuseum-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/93f1de886f.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-04-08T10:30:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sacramento History Museum (@sachistorymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/sachistorymuseum

## Caption

April 8th is National Draw A Bird Day, but why draw one when you can print one? 

For today, Howard letterpress printed an image from an electrotype (copy of a woodcut) from the Lewis Winter Collection. This cut was made roughly 130 years ago and was never mounted on a piece of wood to make it type high to print. That is why it is sitting on a board and a short stack of paper to make it type high (0.918 of an inch) in order to be printed. The image from the cut depicts a bird sitting on a tree branch. This was printed with blue rubber base ink using our Washington hand press, which was made in 1852.

#DrawABirdDay #SacHistoryMuseum #sacramento #museum #printing

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