We often observe many national “holidays” on social media. It is one of the ways we can highlight and give relevance to an item at the Sacramento History Museum, especially our print shop exhibit. For example, October 18th is National Necktie Day! What we know as a necktie today has its origins in Croatia dating to the mid-1600s. For today, Channey letterpress printed two hand carved woodcuts from the Lewis Winter Collection, which were made roughly 130-135 years ago. These woodcuts depict two different styles of neckties. Much of Winter’s Collection contains clothing items that were used in advertising in the 1890s in local Sacramento newspapers. These were printed with blue rubber base ink using our Washington hand press, which was made in 1852. #NationalNecktieDay #necktie #museum #printing #sachistorymuseum