{"id":4834,"date":"2012-03-23T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T15:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/?p=4834"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:07:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:07:23","slug":"theres-still-time-to-visit-the-exhibit-of-alphabets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2012\/03\/23\/theres-still-time-to-visit-the-exhibit-of-alphabets\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s Still Time to Visit the Exhibit of Alphabets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Knies, Special Collections Librarian at the University of Scranton\u2019s Weinberg Memorial Library, oversees the exhibition of alphabet and penmanship samples. Image courtesy of The Times Leader.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The exhibit of alphabets from the Library’s Zaner-Bloser Penmanship Collection is currently on display through April 5th in the 5th Floor Heritage Room of the Library.<\/p>\n

Want to learn more about the exhibit? Mary Therese Biebel from The Times Leader<\/em> recently wrote an article about her visit to explore the alphabets, If you\u2019d grown up in the late 1800s with a steady hand, artistic skill and perhaps the ability to not upset your inkwell too often, those attributes might have led you to a career. <\/a><\/p>\n

About 70 alphabets are on display, and they provide a rare look at the art of American ornamental penmanship from the 19th and early 20th centuries, which very few people continue to pursue.\u00a0 In fact, during her visit Bielbel interviewed Special Collections Librarian Michael Knies who noted that \u201csome college students did not learn cursive, and they\u2019re unable to read correspondence from the 19th and 20th century.\u201d<\/p>\n

So stop by the exhibit and brush up on your ABC’s! You can also browse through the alphabets online in the Library’s digital collection of alphabets from the Zaner-Bloser Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The exhibit of alphabets from the Library’s Zaner-Bloser Penmanship Collection is currently on display through April 5th in the 5th Floor Heritage Room of the Library. Want to learn more about the exhibit? Mary Therese Biebel from The Times Leader recently wrote an article about her visit to explore the alphabets, If you\u2019d grown up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5,9],"tags":[119,157,228,463,578],"class_list":["post-4834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-collections-2","category-exhibits","category-news","tag-digital-collections","tag-exhibit","tag-heritage-room","tag-special-collections","tag-zaner-bloser-penmanship-collection"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4834"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6067,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions\/6067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}