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Columbia University
Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library, located on the sixth floor of Butler Library, holds one of the great collections of rare books and manuscripts in the United States. Columbia’s penmanship holdings are deep and well-documented — largely the gifts of George Arthur Plimpton — and researchers working in the history of American handwriting before 1905 will find exceptional depth there. Searching OCLC or CLIO for penmanship materials through roughly 1930 surfaces the scale of what Columbia holds.
The Kaminski material sent to Columbia was chosen to address a specific gap: the library’s collection is thin after approximately 1905–07. Kaminski items at Columbia are therefore weighted toward the early twentieth century and later. Columbia also received items related to manuscript print — the style of upright, unjoined letterforms taught in American schools beginning in the 1920s — because both Marjorie Wise, who introduced manuscript writing to American classrooms, and Melvil Dewey were affiliated with the university. The collection’s contact at Columbia is Jane Siegel at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Kaminski items cataloged at Columbia can be searched directly in CLIO.
80 items from Columbia University — 71 currently available on Archive.org. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Butler Library
1840s (1 items)
- 1843 — New York Public School No. 13, certificate of merit to Elmina Edmonds (not yet uploaded)
1865–1869 (1 items)
1885–1889 (1 items)
1890–1894 (2 items)
- 1890 — Standard examination tablet (not yet uploaded)
- 1890 — Writing book
1900–1904 (1 items)
- 1900 — Writing book
1905–1909 (7 items)
- 1905 — Haaren’s new writing books
- 1905 — The Zaner-Bloser correlated handwriting practice book
- 1905 — The language system of penmanship
- 1905 — Zaner method arm movement writing
- 1907 — Baltimore Business College method of penmanship
- 1909 — Excelsior system penmanship by the inductive method
- 1909 — Webster spelling, special form, spelling blanks
1910–1914 (6 items)
- 1910 — Houston’s writing lessons (not yet uploaded)
- 1910 — The Zaner method of arm movement writing, compendium no. 4
- 1910 — The Zaner method of arm movement writing, compendium no. 5
- 1910 — The Zaner method of arm movement writing, practice book (not yet uploaded)
- 1913 — Sixty lessons in business writing
- 1913 — The Zaner arm movement spelling blanks
1915–1919 (6 items)
- 1915 — California state series writing compendium no. 6
- 1915 — Palmer method tablet No. 1 (not yet uploaded)
- 1915 — Zaner method arm movement writing, manual 144
- 1916 — Economy method of writing
- 1916 — Economy method of writing, student work (not yet uploaded)
- 1919 — Cassell’s script writing copybook
1920–1924 (5 items)
- 1920 — Muscular writing
- 1920 — The Palmer method of business writing, commercial school edition
- 1921 — Economy method of writing, Dan R. Williams writing samples
- 1923 — The Palmer method of business writing, commercial school edition (not yet uploaded)
- 1924 — Alphabets and letters for lettering, a series of 42 plates in the art and practice of lettering for students and designeers of commercial work
1920s (6 items)
- 1925 — Muscular writing
- 1927 — Beginner’s book of writing and spelling
- 1927 — Beginner’s book of writing and spelling
- 1927 — Correlated handwriting junior high school manual
- 1929 — Revised economy method of writing
- 1929 — Teachers’ guide to writing lessons in primary grades
1930s (18 items)
- 1930 — Legends of letterland by a big bird
- 1931 — The Zaner-Bloser correlated handwriting, practice book 3
- 1934 — Learning to write, step by step with Betty and Jack
- 1935 — My second writing book
- 1935 — Spelling fun
- 1935 — The Palmer method of business handwriting
- 1936 — Palmer method handwriting
- 1936 — Palmer method handwriting teacher’s manual, four book series
- 1936 — Show me how to write (in manuscript)
- 1936 — The Leslie method of arm movement writing
- 1936 — The Zaner-Bloser correlated handwriting, practice book 3
- 1936 — The Zaner-Bloser print to script
- 1936 — The Zaner-Bloser print to script
- 1936 — The Zaner-Bloser print to script compendium
- 1936 — The great big learning book
- 1937 — Manuscript writing made easy, print writing
- 1937 — Winnetka manuscript writing workbook
- 1938 — Manuscript writing made easy
1940s (11 items)
- 1940 — Palmer method handwriting
- 1940 — Penworthy series penmanship tablet
- 1940 — Spelling blank
- 1941 — Model handwriting
- 1942 — Manuscript writing plans
- 1947 — Now we write
- 1947 — Now we write
- 1947 — On to good writing (not yet uploaded)
- 1948 — Script House
- 1948 — We make plans recorder
- 1949 — The advanced Palmer method of business writing
1950s (9 items)
- 1956 — We grow up compendium
- 1956 — We write now compendium
- 1956 — We write now compendium
- 1957 — On handwriting
- 1957 — We write now compendium
- 1958 — Kittle penmanship, retrace build work sheets, combined grades, cursive, book 4-8
- 1958 — On we move compendium
- 1958 — We grow up compendium
- 1959 — Reference manual for teachers, guiding growth in handwriting
1960s (5 items)
- 1961 — We make plans compendium
- 1961 — Working together compendium
- 1961 — Working together compendium
- 1965 — Starting to write recorder
- 1967 — Writing better each day recorder
Undated (1 items)
- n.d. — Economy method of writing (not yet uploaded)
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