The Scrapbook in American Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10021809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gayle Davis (Grand Valley State University, corresponding author), G R Davis |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1285-1286 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/25094708 |
| OpenAlex | W2335344403 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
The Scrapbook in American Life is a welcome addition to the research on collections people keep. The volume includes essays investigating different types of scrapbooks, including albums that contain multiple examples of a single type of artifact, such as trading cards, as well as those that juxtapose different types of artifacts to commemorate a particular experience or time span. Most of the scrapbooks examined date from the nineteenth century, with a few mid-twentieth-century examples. The volume's well-documented introduction covers the development of the scrapbook in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and its spread to the United States as a fashionable pastime during the mid- to late nineteenth century. The late 1800s has been called the “chromo civilization” because technological developments in printing enabled the widespread use of color images in the media (p. 194). Color lithography and the new availability of multiple-print photographs for personal use were key factors in the precipitous growth of scrapbook-making's popularity. This book's only major shortcoming is that it includes only black-and-white illustrations of a very colorful, artful tradition
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Artifact (error · Civilization · Literature · Political science · Popularity · Visual arts · White (mutation · Art History and Market Analysis · Computer Science · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · History · Law
Making Media Production Visible
The “Althea Hurst Scrapbook”. Discovering the Photographic Memories of Four African American Teachers’ European Tour in 1938
“I want to be good
Cecil Beaton, Richard Hamilton and the Queer, Transatlantic Origins of Pop Art
Identidades de género en álbumes fotográficos del siglo XIX en México
The American College of Tehran, 1929–32
Corporate Calling Cards
From scrapbook to Facebook
Cut and Paste
| Citations per year | 0.53 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |