# @sachistorymuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Dac8ZWzBKAG
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67656274-sachistorymuseum-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-07-06T13:01:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sacramento History Museum (@sachistorymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/sachistorymuseum

## Caption

The second week in July is National Farriers Week, a time to recognize the contribution of farriers to the equine industry. A farrier is a skilled technician that trims and balances horse and mule hooves and, if needed, shoe them as well.

In honor of this week, Channey letterpress printed an image from an electrotype (copy of a woodcut) from the Lewis Winter Collection. This depicts farrier shoeing a horse with a large horseshoe as a border for the image. This was printed with blue rubber base ink using a Washington hand press.

There are a lot of farrier and blacksmith related cuts made by Lewis Winter in his collection. His father was a trained blacksmith in Detroit, Michigan before migrating to California during the Gold Rush. Lewis Winter had a wood and photo engraving business at 627 J Street in Sacramento from 1888 to 1910. Much of the cuts were designed for advertising in local newspapers, magazines, and catalogs.

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