Many Years Worth Of The Penman's Art Journal To View/download

[Columba Livia]

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=penman%27s%20art%20journal%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts

 

I've noticed that put up this year on archive.org were scans of a goodly quantity of bound volumes from the late 1870's to 1910 (w/gaps). You can view them online and/or download PDFs. The Penman's art journal was a magazine for penman: lessons in business writing, lettering, ornamental writing, engravers script, (pen) drawing, flourishing. Articles, adverts, editorials, letters and all sorts. A really valuable resource for anyone interested in these sorts of things I think.

 

Vast amounts of good stuff there, e.g beginning lessons in Business writing by FW Tamblyn:

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/penmansartjourna315nati#page/136/mode/2up

 

Ornamental writing and a discussion over the right sort of name for muscular movement/fore-arm movement etc writing:

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/penmansartjourna315nati#page/146/mode/2up

 

There is also stuff about shorthand and typewriting, and vertical writing with attendant adverts for vertical writing pens, when vertical writing was all the rage.

 

Who knew that Daniel T. Ames invested his life savings in a block of houses called Ames row in San Francisco and that they were badly damaged in the earthquake or that you could once get a copy of the New Spencerian compendium for $10.

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Edited December 1, 2010 by Columba Livia

[caliken]

This is a wonderful source of information...thanks for posting.

[Columba Livia]

Apparently, Scranton university had a Zaner-Bloser collection, which has been scanned, so there is also many bound volumes of the (business) educator, and some copies of the American penman (put out by the Palmer company) and George Gaskell's Penman's gazette & the penman and artist, you can find them in the Scranton collection:

 

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3A%22university_scranton%22&page=1

 

Penman and artist:

 

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=penman%20artist

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The Penman and artist focuses entirely on penmanship/calligraphy/art, so that is the one which may be of the most immediate interest.

 

(I note that from p77 of the Penman and Artist, that Louis Madarasz's mother was murdered on April 1st 1899 in a robbery!)

 

Penman's Gazette:

 

http://www.archive.org/details/penmansgazette03unse

 

American Penman:

 

http://www.archive.org/details/americanpenman2411anpa

 

The (Business) Educator:

 

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=publisher%3A%22Zaner+-+Bloser%22

 

This is from volume 8 of the Business Educator. I particularly like the T on the 7th line down on the left:

 

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Edited December 1, 2010 by Columba Livia

[Daisy]

Thanks for posting this pic! Several of my cursive caps have been giving me problems, and this has already presented at least two viable alternatives, with ideas for more.

 

Off to go look at the originals... Thanks!

Edited December 2, 2010 by Daisy