Printing the Sacramento History Museum’s 2025 holiday card - inside text (Shorts version)

Alex letterpress prints a Christmas print as the big holiday approaches.

Letterpress printing some big thanks for National Thank You Note Day (December 26)

Sacramento prepares for storm as crews clear leaves

Making letterpress prints for our upcoming A California Christmas Carole on December 22 & 23 at SHM

Printing the opening line of “A Visit From Saint Nicholas” (first published December 23, 1823)

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, which 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 operate

Sometimes we find printing items online and want to see who they’d turn out in our print shop at the Sacramento History Museum. This large linocut was acquired last year and Jared wanted to see how letterpress printing it would turn out, especially for some personal holiday cards. The print is of Snoopy, Woodstock, and a Christmas tree. This was printed using a 4x6 Golding Official No. 2 tabletop printing press using opaque white oil base ink. #SacHistoryMuseum #snoopy #printing #christmas #muse