Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Historical Typography

 This is a copy of the Gettysburg Address, you can visit the link below to view a larger version. Other than the official header text at the top, it is handwritten. I find it interesting how much handwriting has changed over time as well typography. Many of my current high school students can't even read cursive handwriting. We had a love job and the client wrote all the text in cursive. I was amazed how many of my students couldn't read the clients handwriting to interpret what was needed for the job.

Citation: Abraham Lincoln, Draft of the Gettysburg Address: Nicolay Copy, November 1863; Series 3, General Correspondence, 1837-1897; The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division (Washington, D. C.: American Memory Project, [2000-02]), http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alhome.html.

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