Howard shares a joke about a frog wearing shoes while letterpress printing with a 10x15 Chandler & Price jobbing press. #museum #history #sacramento #joke #jokes #jokesvideo #letterpress #printingpress #printing #oldsacramento #sachistorymuseum | Sacramento History Museum

March 20th is World Frog Day! For today, Howard letterpress printed an image of a frog taking an unexpected mode of transportation. This 125-130 year old electrotype (copy of a woodcut) is from the Lewis Winter Collection. Lewis Winter was a wood and photo engraver, who had his business at 627 J Street from 1888 to 1910. We don’t know the backstory of this cut, but it isn’t the only cut of an animal riding a penny farthing in his collection. This was printed with green rubber base ink using our

Since March 20th is World Frog Day, Jared used some green rubber base ink to print an image of a frog taking an unexpected mode of transportation. The text below reads, “Printed at the Sacramento History Museum). This electrotype (copy of a woodcut), depicting a frog riding a penny farthing, is from the Lewis Winter Collection. Lewis Winter was a wood and photo engraver who had his business at 627 J Street in Sacramento from 1888 to 1910. We don’t know the backstory of this cut, but it isn’t the