I know that varies by region, but schoolchildren are generally taught cursive as a faster way to write. It already requires some memorisation with some glyphs being different from block letters. Why not make an additional step and completely replace it with shorthand, making writing an order of magnitude faster?

  • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    https://www.loc.gov/item/mss351210535/

    This is labeled # Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1839-1903; Undated; On religion, fragments

    According to wikipedia:

    Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is considered to be the father of landscape architecture in the United States. Olmsted was famous for co-designing many well-known urban parks with his partner Calvert Vaux, beginning with Central Park in New York City, which led to numerous other urban park designs including Prospect Park in Brooklyn, Cadwalader Park in Trenton, New Jersey, and Forest Park in Portland, Oregon.[2]
      • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        That was just the first result after a search. Its going to depend on who is trying to find historical documents, their goal, what they’re researching, who they’re researching, the time period they’re researching, the types of documents they’re researching.

        For example, there are a lot of historical documents during the slavery era written by free african americans. The Library of Congress has a lot of it scanned and available as images, but not transcribed into digital text yet.