April 3rd is American Circus Day! This day commemorates the anniversary of the first circus performance in the United States, which took place on April 3, 1793 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For today, Jared letterpress printed the largest halftone that we have in our print shop at the Sacramento History Museum, which is a poster for the circus performer, Clyde Beatty. This halftone was made in the 1930s. This was printed with black rubber base ink using our Washington hand press. This halftone

Our print shop contains a halftone depicting a commemorative cup for the Moon landing, which occurred on July 20, 1969. The halftone was likely used to advertise the cup in a newspaper or magazine 54 years ago. Since we like to associate our videos with specific days, of course we had to print it for July 20th.Well we thought that was the end of that print. However, one of our wonderful viewers of that video sent us not one but four commemorative cups (or tumblers) that they must have had in the