Palmer Method Honor Writing
notes: label: Description
content: Brass button with a “PALMER / METHOD / HONOR / WRITING” inscription on the front. The Palmer Method of penmanship instruction, developed and promoted by Austin Norman Palmer (1860-1927), was essentially a simplified style of the Spencerian Method that had been the major standardized system of handwriting since the 1840s. In time, it became the most popular handwriting system in the United States.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Timothy Connelly in memory of Gordon Montgomery Connelly
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0314.01
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0314.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.0314
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Button
label: Object Name
content: button, promotional
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: .5 cm x 1.5 cm; x 3/16 in x 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 5/8 in x 5/8 in; .635 cm x 1.5875 cm x 1.5875 cm