The Scrapbook in American Life
The Scrapbook in American Life

Author: Susan Tucker

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9781592134786

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This book explores the history of scrapbook-making, its origins, uses, changing forms and purposes as well as the human agents behind the books themselves. Scrapbooks bring pleasure in both the making and consuming - and are one of the most enduring yet simultaneously changing cultural forms of the last two centuries. Despite the popularity of scrapbooks, no one has placed them within historical traditions until now. This volume considers the makers, their artefacts, And The viewers within the context of American culture. The volume's contributors do not show the reader how to make scrapbooks or improve techniques but instead explore the curious history of what others have done in the past and why these splendid examples of material and visual culture have such a significant place in many households.

Writing with Scissors
Writing with Scissors

Author: Ellen Gruber Garvey

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-11-02

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0199986355

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Men and women 150 years ago grappled with information overload by making scrapbooks-the ancestors of Google and blogging. From Abraham Lincoln to Susan B. Anthony, African American janitors to farmwomen, abolitionists to Confederates, people cut out and pasted down their reading. Writing with Scissors opens a new window into the feelings and thoughts of ordinary and extraordinary Americans. Like us, nineteenth-century readers spoke back to the media, and treasured what mattered to them. In this groundbreaking book, Ellen Gruber Garvey reveals a previously unexplored layer of American popular culture, where the proliferating cheap press touched the lives of activists and mourning parents, and all who yearned for a place in history. Scrapbook makers documented their feelings about momentous public events such as living through the Civil War, mediated through the newspapers. African Americans and women's rights activists collected, concentrated, and critiqued accounts from a press that they did not control to create "unwritten histories" in books they wrote with scissors. Whether scrapbook makers pasted their clippings into blank books, sermon collections, or the pre-gummed scrapbook that Mark Twain invented, they claimed ownership of their reading. They created their own democratic archives. Writing with Scissors argues that people have long had a strong personal relationship to media. Like newspaper editors who enthusiastically "scissorized" and reprinted attractive items from other newspapers, scrapbook makers passed their reading along to family and community. This book explains how their scrapbooks underlie our present-day ways of thinking about information, news, and what we do with it.

Some of My Lives
Some of My Lives

Author: Rosamond Bernier

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2011-10-11

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 142999505X

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Rosamond Bernier has lived an unusually full life—remarkable for its vividness and diversity of experience—and she has known many (one is tempted to say all) of the greatest artists and composers of the twentieth century. In Some of My Lives, Bernier has made a kind of literary scrapbook from an extraordinary array of writings, ranging from diary entries to her many contributions to the art journal L'OEIL, which she cofounded in 1955. The result is a multifaceted self-portrait of a life informed and surrounded by the arts. Through the stories of her encounters with some of the twentieth century's great artists and composers—including Pablo Picasso, Leonard Bernstein, Max Ernst, Aaron Copeland, Malcolm Lowry, and Karl Lagerfeld—we come to understand the sheer richness of Bernier's experiences, interactions, and memories. The result is pithy, hilarious, and wise—a richly rewarding chronicle of many lives fully lived.

The Scrapbook Memoirs of an African-American Artist
The Scrapbook Memoirs of an African-American Artist

Author: Debbie Bell Jarratt

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2017-11-13

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13: 9781973602965

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"This book is the illustrated story, laced with portrait vignettes of my American family, and my life as a creative artist. I have filled these memoirs with a retrospective of my art; pleasant ephemera, family papers, genealogies, love stories, newspaper clippings, church history, scripture and vintage photographs, presented in a scrapbook format."--Page 1.

Lucy & Desi
Lucy & Desi

Author: Elizabeth Edwards

Publisher: Running Press

Published: 2004-10-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780762415724

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During their marriage, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz filled over 100 scrapbooks with all manner of memorabilia. Now fans can take a rare peek at the details of the famous TV couple's lives with this fantastic replica composite. Lucy & Desi, our exclusive, real-life scrapbook of the couple's lives, contains 25 interactive, three-dimensional paper-engineered replicas of actual items—from Desi's report card to important telegrams—which have never been published before. Vintage snapshots of happy family moments, touching love letters, passports, and other precious minutiae, with more than 150 photographs, both black-and-white and color, fill this wonderful, engrossing look back at the golden years of television comedy, when Lucy and Desi charmed America with humor and song. This official scrapbook is a must-have for the millions of devoted fans.

Ethnic Scrapbooking
Ethnic Scrapbooking

Author: Lisa Sanford

Publisher:

Published: 2007-09-01

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 9780978661007

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Ethnic Scrapbooking is the first culturally inspired book that will get you scrapbooking about other ethnic cultures, your connections to them, as well as your own ethnic heritage. This thick and juicy book contains over 100 "out of the box" ideas and images to inspire you to creativity. Ethnic Scrapbooking is for everyone. No matter what your race, ethnicity or nationality, you will be inspired to embrace the world around you and scrapbook too. Author, scrapbook designer, conference speaker Lisa Sanford lives a lifestyle of cultural awareness and preservation in Maryland with her husband, five children and grandson.

The Scrapbook of My Life
The Scrapbook of My Life

Author: Alfie Deyes

Publisher: Running Press Kids

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0762461276

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From his early days as a budding amateur vlogger, through to everyone's favorite YouTube superstar, Alfie Deyes' story is the stuff of dreams. With millions of followers across the world, his unique brand of nothingness has come to define a generation, while his YouTube channel continues to gain new followers on a daily basis. Now, for the very first time, Alfie talks about how it all began . . . From growing up on the sunny south coast of England, having fun with friends and thinking up pranks, dares, and silly activities throughout the long summer holidays in Brighton, through to recording his first ever vlog at the age of 15, The Scrapbook of My Life is the story of how a young, ambitious kid with a big character took the world by storm. But The Scrapbook of My Life isn't a typical autobiography. Join Alfie as he recalls his first childhood memories, his first day at school, his first ever job, and how he has moved from his hometown to the wide-eyed metropolis of London--and fill in your own pages alongside your favorite YouTube star! With alternate pages for readers to complete, including pages for sticking photographs, completing stats and facts, and collecting souvenirs, The Scrapbook of My Life is the ultimate journal for PointlessBlog fans, old and new!

Our Eleanor
Our Eleanor

Author: Candace Fleming

Publisher: Atheneum

Published: 2005-10

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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A biography of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt illustrated with historical photographs.

Scrapbook Jewelry
Scrapbook Jewelry

Author: American Girl (Firm)

Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781593697679

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Girls can turn scrapbook supplies into super accessories! The easy instructions in this book will help girls make necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and more. Includes tips for 17 fun-to-make jewelry ideas, plus six sheets of tear-out scrapbook paper girls can use to get started.

The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt

Author: Caroline Preston

Publisher: Ecco

Published: 2011-10-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780061966903

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For her graduation from high school in 1920, Frankie Pratt receives a scrapbook and her father’s old Corona typewriter. Despite Frankie’s dreams of becoming a writer, she must forgo a college scholarship to help her widowed mother. But when a mysterious Captain James sweeps her off her feet, her mother finds a way to protect Frankie from the less-than-noble intentions of her unsuitable beau. Through a kaleidoscopic array of vintage postcards, letters, magazine ads, ticket stubs, catalog pages, fabric swatches, candy wrappers, fashion spreads, menus, and more, we meet and follow Frankie on her journey in search of success and love. Once at Vassar, Frankie crosses paths with intellectuals and writers, among them “Vincent” (alumna Edna St. Vincent Millay), who encourages Frankie to move to Greenwich Village and pursue her writing. When heartbreak finds her in New York, she sets off for Paris aboard the S.S. Mauritania, where she keeps company with two exiled Russian princes and a “spinster adventuress” who is paying her way across the Atlantic with her unused trousseau. In Paris, Frankie takes a garret apartment above Shakespeare & Company, the hub of expat life, only to have a certain ne’er-do-well captain from her past reappear. But when a family crisis compels Frankie to return to her small New England hometown, she finds exactly what she had been looking for all along. Author of the New York Times Notable Book Jackie by Josie, Caroline Preston pulls from her extraordinary collection of vintage ephemera to create the first-ever scrapbook novel, transporting us back to the vibrant, burgeoning bohemian culture of the 1920s and introducing us to an unforgettable heroine, the spirited, ambitious, and lovely Frankie Pratt.