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Writing with scissors : American scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem renaissance
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garvey, Ellen Gruber, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scrapbooking--History--United States.
- Scrapbooking.
- Cut-out craft--History--United States.
- Cut-out craft.
- United States--Social life and customs.
- United States.
- United States--History--Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.) : ill.
- Other Title:
- Writing with scissors
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Featuring over 50 rare and hard-to-find illustrations, 'Writing with Scissors' presents a fascinating cultural history of scrapbooks in America.
- Contents:
- Reuse, recycle, recirculate : scrapbooks remake value
- Mark Twain's scrapbook innovations
- Civil War scrapbooks : newspaper and nation
- Alternative histories in African American scrapbooks
- Strategic scrapbooks : activist women's clipping and self-creation
- Scrapbook as archive, scrapbooks in archives
- The afterlife of the nineteenth-century scrapbook : managing data and information.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 30, 2012).
- ISBN:
- 9780199979240 (ebook) :
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