Old cursive handwriting

Old German (Prussian) Alphabet & German Script - from Elementarbuch Der Deutschen Sprache, by Arnold Werner-Spanhood (1912)

Raise your hand, Pandas who still have a notebook! (A handful of hands slowly come up.) Now, raise your hand if you write in that notebook! While we listen to the humming silence, I have to admit that in the past week, I scribbled out a single post-it note with my groceries list. The fact is obvious: typing has pretty much replaced the good, old and beautiful art of handwriting. (I am not looking at you, doctors!)

Making sense of German historical records can be tricky because the old German Cursive Alphabet and typefaces kept changing. See why!

As you might've realized from our publications on the Facebook group 'What in the $20 wish tattoo machine is this?' or the 'That's It, I'm Inkshaming' group, sadly, subpar tattoos are pretty common. Which makes the good ones even more admirable.

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Brenda Arledge has given Hubpage authors a 24th prompt, which is “letter”. There is an acrostic poem and a poem that bemoans the fact that many children are no longer learning to write in cursive.

Kurrent script from a 1903-1914 primer on German, the 26 letters, ligatures, start of sample text, from someone with impeccable and amazing handwriting.

These Alphabet samples are from my collection of old books. You'll find some Gothic letters, sign language symbols, Greek and Spanish letters, and more!