Palmer Method returning to a more cursive style. The Palmer company stopped publishing in the 1980s. In radar engineering, a Palmer Scan is a scanning technique that produces a scanning beam by moving the main antenna and its feed in a circular motion. The name was derived from the looping circles practiced by students of the Palmer Method. Palmer Method The Palmer Method of penmanship instruction was developed and promoted by Austin Palmer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was largely created as a simplified style of the "Spencerian Method", which had been the major standardized system of handwriting
James A. Palmer that trait. While documenting scenes from black communities, Palmer mostly stayed away from any kind of political commentary. He gave his images simple and descriptive titles. However, there were also times in his career when he used his platform to champion the political rights of African-Americans, or, at the very least, to draw sympathy for them. In 1874, he took a stereograph of a poor black family he entitled "The way the negro race is dying out." He titled another image of children from the same family " We are all, all hue." While he lived in Aiken, Palmer took