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Can You Read This Cursive Handwriting? The National Archives Wants Your Help (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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I appreciate that this is a very tenuous connection to typography, but since it is about digitizing handwriting into a computer font-based archive, I think it fits. Let me know if I am being unreasonable.

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[–] Donjuanme 8 points 2 weeks ago

I can get over half of it... From the thumbnail.. I doubt I'm unique.

[–] OldManBOMBIN 3 points 2 weeks ago

Looks like it says some guy named OldManBOMBIN is super rich now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The following is the declaration of James Lambert a soldier in the revolutionary war of North America. The said James Lambert on this day

About all I can do other than buts and pieces.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Well, get on it. Them buts ain’t gonna piece themselves!