Good Morning Friends,
The March Hare has joined everyone for a tea party. We may all be living in Alice Land. Who knows?
I have been sorting through some of my old pens and looking at various types of handwriting. I happen to have an old autograph book from around 1887 and find it fascinating that apparently ordinary people (maybe students?) had such beautiful handwriting. Here are some examples for you to enjoy.
Here is the album along with one of my old dip pens. I think the album cover may be celluloid but I'm not sure.
Clicking of the pictures may enlarge them. (I hope) I'm off to join the Tea Party going on at Altered Book Lover blog.
Lovely My Mom and Grandma had lovely handwriting-sad that it must not be important in the schools anymore.
ReplyDeleteenjoyed seeing the examples-Happy T
I think that the really elegant penmanship was obsolete by 100 years ago. The leisure classes had more leisure back then.
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My handwriting is nothing to write home about ;) but I do admire folks who cultivate an elegant hand. Happy T Tuesday
ReplyDeleteYour little autograph book makes me SO happy. I love seeing history preserved. It amazes me how we went from gorgeous handwriting, such as in this book, to a education system where cursive is no longer taught. It makes me so sad.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing.
Happy Tea Day,
Kate
I envy the people who wrote great cursive back in the day. They don't teach that anymore. Kids use their thumbs to type short nonsense messages on their devices. The art of hand writing is soon to be a lost art. I think I've headed down the rabbit hole with Alice and I like it! Thanks for sharing these writings and the Alice in Wonderland image with us for T this Tuesday dear Darla.
ReplyDeleteHappy March Darla. I am loving that old autograph book. That handwriting is amazing. I learned cursive, and I couldn't write that nicely if I tried. Thanks for sharing it, and hope you are having a nice T day. hugs-Erika
ReplyDeleteOh what elegant handwriting, and how cool to have such an old autograph book! Happy T day!
ReplyDeleteI love an Alice in wonderland tea party! No, kidding that is some beautiful handwriting! Happy T Day.
ReplyDeleteLove Alice - especially the vintage Alice. Love the autograph book and the lovely handwriting too. I can't believe the schools have dropped it. It teaches you much more than handwriting...we do seem to live in Wonderland....Happy T-day a bit late, Darla.
ReplyDeleteLovely post. The days of cursive are long gone and beautiful cursive is a lost art.
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous little book! I love seeing beautiful handwriting. I learnt cursive with a dip pen at school (early fifties) and I still can write decent cursive, but not as beautiful as the hand writing in your book.
ReplyDeleteI think children don't learn it anymore. I remember some years ago the Open University in the UK (which still has written exams) warned their students to practice their handwriting before the exam, as three hours of non-stop writing would cause painful cramps to people who never write.
Happy belated T-Day,
Hugs,
Lisca
Wonderful album. I remember penmanship classes when I was in school only by then dip pen and ink made way for a ballpoint pen. Sadly, penmanship or cursive writing isn't taught beyond 3rd grade in schools anymore.
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