Did you know that when you shop at our Museum Store, there is something special about the paper bag we place your purchased items in? Our paper bags are printed with our Museum logo and contact information using one of our historic printing presses! In this video, Howard prepares our Chandler & Price jobbing press, manufactured in 1902, for a press run to print 100 large paper bags for our Museum Store. Stop by the Sacramento History Museum when we’re open and take home a printing souvenir when

This announcement deserves a new ink color. Thank you, everybody, for your support and helping the Sacramento History Museum reach 300,000 YouTube subscribers! Here’s some 24 point Caslon and some yellow ink as we letterpress print an announcement using our Washington hand press made in 1852. Check out our other videos on our YouTube channel here: https://youtube.com/c/SacramentoHistoryMuseum #youtube #typography #hotoffthepress #letterpress #museumlife | Sacramento History Museum

It has become a tradition here at the Sacramento History Museum to send out holiday cards to our donors and supporters of our institution. These holiday cards (300 this year) were printed using one of our printing presses we have on display in our print shop exhibit, the 10x15 Chandler & Price Gordon-style jobbing press that was manufactured in Cleveland, Ohio in 1902. While many visitors, especially school children who have visited during a school program, may have seen how this press operates,