He talks about the movement away from the dramatic, Spencerian writing style of the 19th Century to the modern, Palmer method of penmanship. Tufo also displays original samples of elaborately ...

Spencerian cursive was the preferred writing style of clerks in the U.S. government. Here are 12 examples of handwriting so perfect it could be a font. Spencerian cursive was replaced in 1890 by a ...

Students learned Spencerian script from their teachers, through “copy books” filled with examples, and through rote repetition, in keeping with the educational method of the times. A mastery ...

His florid style of hand-writing is called Spencerian Script ... We submitted handwriting samples to Rozakis and asked for her expertise. She required that the subjects write several paragraphs ...

In the mid-1800s, Platt Rogers Spencer introduced the Spencerian cursive writing system in an attempt to democratize handwriting in the US. Source: The History Channel In American schools ...

Developed in the 1820s by Platt Rogers Spencer (1800-1864), Spencerian script is a beautiful form of penmanship that became the first nationally adopted system of handwriting in America.

After he died in 1864, his many children carried on that work. (You can read a copy of Spencerian Key to Practical Penmanship [1866] on the Internet Archive’s website.) In the days before ...

He settled down, stopped drinking and opened a penmanship school in a log cabin outside of Geneva, Ohio. He called his school Jericho. From the mid 1800s until the 1920s, Spencerian penmanship was ...

Various professions had their own signature style of handwriting as well. Two methods prevailed in America. In the 19th century, it was the Spencerian method (the original Coca Cola logo is an ...