This is why scrapbooks devoted solely to cataloguing recipes, coupons, or other lists were also common during this time.
The growing volume of ephemera of this kind, parallel to the growth of industrialized society, created a demand for methods of cataloguing and preserving them. Printed material such as cheap newspapers, visiting cards, playbills, and pamphlets circulated widely during the 19th century and often became the primary components of peoples’ scrapbooks. Īn elaborate example of a braided hairlock attached to a page, from the scrapbook of Anne Wagner, kept between 17ĭuring the 19th century, scrapbooking was seen as a more involved way to preserve one's experiences than journaling or other writing-based forms of logging. Thus scrapbooks from this era can create a more complete image of their maker's life. Solid objects such as plants, silverware, or small trinkets were also used when further visual representation was needed.Ī page from these subject-based scrapbooks might include class schedules, exam booklets, letters from professors, or other printed material from school events. A playbill and ticket stub might serve as reminders of a trip to New York to see a Broadway show. A guest list or group of visiting cards might represent a young woman's visit to a party. Without photograph albums to provide images of these life events, students created unique representations through scrapbooks in order to illustrate their lives using ephemera and memorabilia. This page uses drawings, ephemera, and physical objects to represent a day in the life of the student.įor example, college women around the turn of the century used scrapbooks extensively to construct representations of their everyday life as students. Additionally, friendship albums, confession albums, and school yearbooks afforded girls in the 18th and 19th centuries an outlet through which to share their literary skills, and allowed girls an opportunity to document their own personalized historical record previously not readily available to them.Ī page from a Smith College student's scrapbook circa 1906. The practice of pasting engravings, lithographs and other illustrations into books, or even taking the books apart, inserting new matter, and rebinding them, became known as extra-illustrating or grangerizing. The pages were designed to allow the book's owner to personalize the book with their own memorabilia. In 1775, James Granger published a history of England with several blank pages at the end of the book. These provided affordable options as compared to original works and, as such, these plates were not sold to commemorate or document a specific event, but specifically as embellishments for albums. Starting in 1570, it became fashionable to incorporate colored plates depicting popular scenes such as Venetian costumes or Carnival scenes. These albums were often created as souvenirs of European tours and would contain local memorabilia including coats of arms or works of art commissioned by local artisans.
These albums were used much like modern day yearbooks, where friends or patrons would enter their names, titles and short texts or illustrations at the request of the album's owner.
Friendship albums became popular in the 16th century. Each commonplace book was unique to its creator's particular interests. In the 15th century, commonplace books, popular in England, emerged as a way to compile information that included recipes, quotations, letters, poems and more.
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