Scapbooking began in the 1820s, as more and more magazines and newspapers were available. Men, women, and children used scissors to cut information related to their interests and pasted the clippings on recycled paper, re-purposed books, or commercial produced blank scrapbooks. Newspapers in the 19th and first half of the 20th century often featured “For the Scrapbook” columns. Scrapbookers clipped the items of interest and pasted them in their own personal scrapbooks.
From The Evening World newspaper, New York, N.Y., October 10, 1922.