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		joezydeco on Aug 4, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Depression-era color photos One thing that's always piqued my curiosity is the old handwriting seen in these photos. Look at #6 and #30. You see a lot of this style of handwriting pre-WWII, then it disappears. What changed?

Semiapies on Aug 5, 2010 | [–]

Cursive became bigger. If you look into the various "italic" schools of handwriting/calligraphy, you can still find courses and books on writing that way, though.

I've got that on my things-to-do after this summer...

hernan7 on Aug 4, 2010 | [–]

I suspect they stopped teaching calligraphy drills in elementary school.

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