Newspapers in the 19th and first half of the 20th century often featured “For the Scrapbook” columns.
Newspapers began to publish photographs in the 1880s; magazines included photographs by the turn of the century. Photographs were often cut and pasted into scrapbooks before average people could afford their own snapshot camera.
From Evening Public Ledger newspaper, Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 8, 1922
I’ll use this in a lesson on digital literacy in my 5th grade classroom. For example, I could ask students to compare and contrast this photo from a newspaper to photos on the internet and social media and consider how the technology has changed.