# @sachistorymuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZaAXsqBdyB
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/66614381-sachistorymuseum-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-06-10T13:04:33.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sacramento History Museum (@sachistorymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/sachistorymuseum

## Caption

Throughout the month of June, we have been sharing videos from our print shop exhibit at the Sacramento History Museum demonstrating letterpress printing with multiple colors of ink. For this one, we wanted to see how a print from the Lewis Winter Collection looked in rainbow. 

In this video, Jared letterpress printed an image from the largest electrotype in the Lewis Winter Collection. This cut was made at least 127 years ago. Lewis’ father, John Winter, came to California in 1855 during the Gold Rush. After briefly gold mining in Amador County, he took up farming in Antelope, just outside of Sacramento. In 1863, John married Mary A. Schaffer and they moved to a farm in Capay Valley in Yolo County where they raised 10 children. 

Lewis Winter would later create this cut at his wood and photo engraving office at 627 J Street in Sacramento sometime between 1888 (when he bought the business) and 1901 when his mother passed away (the cut alludes to the residence of Mrs. John Winter). The Winter Collection is full of agricultural related cuts but nothing is as detailed as this engraving of his family’s farm. He also showcased a lot of his work at the California State Fair in the 1890s. This was printed with red, yellow, blue, and purple ink (orange and green were created as the inks blended) using our Washington hand press.

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