Ever wonder how photography was introduced in printing? In this video, Howard explains how halftones were used to introduce photography in newspapers and books starting in the late 1880s. Howard also shows and prints a large halftone as an example. The press Howard uses in the video is our Washington hand press manufactured in 1852 in Cincinnati, Ohio by the Charles Foster & Brother Company. #printing #printingpress #halftone #sacramento | Sacramento History Museum
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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
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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
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On February 25, 1854, Sacramento became the Capital of California. In honor of today, Howard printed an image from a 100 year old halftone of the State Capitol building, which was constructed in the 1860s. Halftones were used to introduce photography in newspapers and books starting in the late 1880s. The halftone process, in printing, is a technique of breaking up an image into a series of dots in order to reproduce the full tone range of a photograph or illustration. Check out our video from e
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