| Description | English: Correct hand position for holding a marking pen, from an instruction manual on show-card writing |
| Date | 1909 |
| Source | Druggists’ and Dispensers’ Practical Show Card Instructor |
| Author | Anonymous |
How to Hold a Marking Pen
Category Archives: Writing & Penmanship
Writing with a Remington Portable
From an advertisement in Cine-Mundial, 1926.
Wahl Fountain Pen
| Description | English: Illustration from an advertisement for Wahl fountain pens, 1926 |
| Date | 1926 |
| Source | Cine-Mundial |
| Author | Anonymous |
Eskorn Fountain Pen
| Description | English: Eskorn fountain pen, from a 1913 advertisement |
| Date | 1913 |
| Source | Advertisement in The Motion Picture Story Magazine |
| Author | Anonymous |
Monarch Visible No. 3 Typewriter
| Description | English: Monarch Visible No. 3 typewriter, from a 1911 advertisement |
| Date | 1911 |
| Source | Advertisement in The Motion Picture Story Magazine (https://archive.org/details/motionpicturesto01moti/page/n539/mode/2up?view=theater) |
| Author | Anonymous |
Writing a Letter, by M. E.
Stock illustration from a Rochester social magazine from 1924. Signed “M. E.”
Advertisement for Esterbrook Steel Pens
| Description | English: Advertisement for Esterbrook steel pens, from an 1887 magazine |
| Date | 1887 |
| Source | Advertisement in Queries (https://archive.org/details/queries_illustrated_188705/page/n47/mode/2up?view=theater) |
| Author | Anonymous |
Horace
| Description | English: Horace (or any 15th-century writer) at his desk; title-page cut from a 1498 edition of the works of Horace |
| Date | 1498 |
| Source | Horatii Flacci Venusini Poete lirici opera (https://archive.org/details/horatijflacciven00hora/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater). |
| Author | Anonymous |
More Headings from Zaner-Bloser
| Description | English: SVG adaptations of advertising headers for business colleges |
| Date | 1916 |
| Source | Catalog of Script Cuts for Business College Advertising (https://archive.org/details/Masgrimes_Catalog_of_Script_Cuts/mode/2up) |
| Author | Anonymous |
Some Headings from Zaner-Bloser
| Description | English: SVG adaptation of an advertising heading for business colleges |
| Date | 1916 |
| Source | Catalog of Script Cuts for Business College Advertising (https://archive.org/details/Masgrimes_Catalog_of_Script_Cuts/mode/2up) |
| Author | Anonymous |