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Writing with scissors : American scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem renaissance

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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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