Typewriters were heavy, noisy, and not easily portable; even though they were used in many businesses, handwriting remained the primary method of written personal communications through the 1970s.

For ages experts and laymen have been analyzing and trying to crack the code of handwriting characteristics, in order to detect an individual's personality traits, or in most cases, gauge their ...

This 1922 picture shows Austin N. Palmer, creator of the Palmer Method of penmanship. He was the first president of the Commercial Club, which became the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce.

Handwriting today isn't the art form it used to be. Here's how penmanship has evolved — or rather, declined — throughout history.