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The scrapbook in American life / edited by Susan Tucker, Katherine Ott, and Patricia P. Buckler.
Van Pelt Library TR465 .S393453 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Photograph albums--United States--History.
- Photograph albums.
- Photographs--Conservation and restoration--United States--History.
- Photographs.
- Scrapbooks--United States--History.
- Scrapbooks.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- History.
- Photographs--Conservation and restoration.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 332 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- "Keeping a scrapbook" is a long-standing American tradition. In this fascinating work--the first book about the history and practice of scrapbooking--14 contributors offer the first serious, sustained examination and analysis of scrapbooks. "Delightful."--"Publishers Weekly." 65 b/w illustrations.
- Contents:
- An Introduction to the History of Scrapbooks / Katherine Ott, Susan Tucker, Patricia P. Buckler 1
- Part I Manuscripts of Learning and Knowing
- 1 Between Person and Profession: The Scrapbooks of Nineteenth-Century Medical Practitioners / Katherine Ott 29
- 2 Daily Life on a South Carolina Plantation, 1855-1983: A Scrapbook Memory from Three Generations of Women / Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq 42
- 3 Letters, Scrapbooks, and History Books: A Personalized Version of the Mexican War, 1846-48 / Patricia P. Buckler 60
- 4 History in the Making: A Columbian Exposition Scrapbook / Jennifer A. Jolly 79
- 5 Scrapbook, Wishbook, Prayerbook: Trade-Card Scrapbooks and the Missionary Work of Advertising / Ellen Gruber Garvey 97
- 6 Scrapbook Houses for Paper Dolls: Creative Expression, Aesthetic Elaboration, and Bonding in the Female World / Beverly Gordon 116
- 7 Souvenirs of Amerika: Hannah Hoch's Weimar-Era Mass-Media Scrapbook / Melissa A. Johnson 135
- Part II Books of the Self
- 8 The Secret Scrapbook of a "Soiled Dove" / Carol Bowers 155
- 9 Inviting Narratives: Willa Cather's Childhood Scrapbook and My Antonia / Jennifer L. Bradley 174
- 10 In the Hands of Children: A Photographic Essay of Images from Children's Scrapbooks / Meredith Eliassen 193
- 11 Picturing Love and Friendship: Photograph Albums and Networks of Affection in the 1860s / Sarah McNair Vosmeier 207
- 12 Telling Particular Stories: Two African American Memory Books / Susan Tucker 220
- 13 Maternal Records and Male Modernist Identities: The Family Albums of Ernest Hemingway and Christopher Isherwood / James Kelley 235
- 14 "Miss Domestic" and "Miss Enterprise": Or, How to Keep a Photograph Album / Elizabeth E. Siegel 251
- 15 Horizons: The Scrapbooks of a Small-Town, Depression-Era Preteen / L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin 268.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-318) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1592134777
- 1592134785
- OCLC:
- 61456731
- Publisher Number:
- 9781592134786
- 9781592134779
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