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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 2013
Page
5
Calligrapher Austin Palmer, arriving from New Hampshire in 1877, advances penmanship into business schools. He takes control of the Iowa Railroad Land Co affiliated Cedar Rapids college by 1890, launches Western Penman in 1884, and promotes his Palmer Method nationwide with teacher training and summer programs.
The Palmer Method of penmanship promoted by Palmer and his wife Sadie expanded from Cedar Rapids to the nation. The Palmer Building housed the Palmer School and publishing offices after a 1905 tax exemption. Rose Kos helped promote the method, typing 5000 letters before Cedar Rapids moved main offices to Chicago in 1954.
Nan Wood Graham recalls five paintings by Grant Wood for Palmer Method Co. at the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition. Each 32 by 42 inch canvas depicts Stone Age to modern writing. only one bears Wood's signature. Sold after Palmer Chicago closed. Cedar Rapids was offered a permanent gallery in 1963 with a $25,000 value. Four works reside in the Figge Museum Davenport. one is at Waterloo Museum of Art. Iowan collection status noted.
Austin Palmer died in 1927 while the Palmer Method spread nationwide to schools reaching about 80 percent. The Business College closed in 1975 and the A N Palmer Co dissolved in 1988. Sadie returned to Cedar Rapids living at Ausadie on First Avenue East until her 1945 death. They rest in Cedar Memorial Chapel of Memories.
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