On July 20, 1969, the spacecraft Apollo 11 commanded by Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon. Neil Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon’s surface almost 7 hours after the landing. This day will forever live on in history and our print shop contains a halftone to remember that historic event. For today, Jared letterpress printed an image from a halftone depicting a commemorative tumbler (or small cup) for the Moon landing. Thanks to one of our viewers who gifted us several of these tumblers, we even have a cup to show. This cut was likely used to advertise the cup in a newspaper or magazine 57 years ago. The halftone process is a way to have photography in printing starting in the late 1880s. This was printed with black rubber base ink using our Washington hand press. #onthisday #moonlanding #SacHistoryMuseum #museum #printing