This is an absolutely incredible resource for pointed pen lessons and exemplars! Not to mention history, trivia and the occasional quirk. The University of Scranton has scanned, in extremely high resolution, almost all the issues of the Business Educator, along with many other examples of brilliant penmanship from the Zaner-Bloser collection.
http://digitalservices.scranton.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/zanerbloserI had assumed this must have been posted before—it seems like such an incredible resource—but I couldn't find it in a search here and I've never seen anyone so much as mention it on IG. My apologies if this is something everyone except me is aware of, it wouldn't surprise me!
You can download any of the pages to your own computer for free and I've gone through and done this with most of the copperplate lessons and exemplars. It does take quite a while, but worth doing to have them at your fingertips. I could share a Dropbox link, but I'm not sure if that's permissible use of the resource? For anyone interested in some of the best copperplate lessons in existence, look up Vols 14 and 20 for lesson series' by Willis Baird; these are the same lessons on Dr Vitolo's site (zanerian.com) but in much much higher quality.
There's also Horace Healey's collection of original work:
http://digitalservices.scranton.edu/cdm/search/collection/zanerbloser/searchterm/The%20Horace%20G.%20Healey%20Collection/field/relati/mode/exact/page/1You can search by penman from a dropdown menu, but I find you get much better results from typing a penman's name i.e. "Lupfer", or a term such as "coppperplate" or "engrosser" directly into the search box.
I'll probably make a second post collating some of the best stuff, but I hope you guys find this as useful as I have/am!
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