June 12th is National Red Rose Day! This day honors the romantic flowers that are in bloom in gardens across the United States. For today, Howard letterpress printed an electrotype (copy of a woodcut) from the Bill Gaylord Collection. Bill was a longtime docent at the Sacramento History Museum and was a collector of letterpress cuts. He also was the person who trained Howard in the print shop 24 years ago. We have a few electrotypes similar to this one in our print shop where there is a small mortised box on top of the image. We are not sure of its original purpose. #SacHistoryMuseum #NationalRedRoseDay #redroseday #rose #roses #museumtok