Howard explains how halftones were used to introduce photography in publishing such as newspapers and books starting in the late 1880s for National Camera Day. Howard also shows and prints a large halftone depicting a scene from the California Gold Rush as an example. #SacHistoryMuseum #museum #printingpress #NationalCameraDay #learnontiktok

When looking around our print shop exhibit, Howard found a halftone that you wouldn’t know what was on it until you printed it. October 25th is International Print Day! This day celebrates all things printing. Since we do letterpress printing in our print shop, we had a lot of options to choose from. For today, Howard used a printing press to print an image from a halftone of another printing press. This halftone of a Chandler & Price jobbing press comes from a recent gift from a follower in Fol