We get a lot of questions from viewers about how many of our woodcuts were made. Well, when Bill Gaylord (a former museum docent) acquired the Lewis Winter Collection, he not received 27 small boxes of woodcuts and electrotypes, but also a small box of tools for carving woodcuts. These tools were used by Lewis Winter at his wood and photo engraving business at 627 J Street in Sacramento, California from 1888 to 1910. Lewis Winter carved a lot of woodcuts for advertisements in local Sacramento ne

Today is National Farmers’ Day! Considering Sacramento is known as the “Farm-To-Fork Capital,” this day is very fitting for the agricultural industry in the Sacramento Valley. In honor of today, Howard printed an image of a horse-drawn wagon from an over 120 year old woodcut. This woodcut is from the Lewis Winter Collection we have in our print shop. #NationalFarmersDay #printingpress #printing #Sacramento | Sacramento History Museum