Resources for instructional activities featured in Discovering Quacks, Utopias, and Cemeteries: Modern Lessons from Historical Themes.
Digitized historical scrapbooks:
- Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911
- Movie Fan scrapbooks from the American Vaudeville Museum Archive
- Scrapbooks from Newcomb College (New Orleans) students 1900-1945.
- Several scrapbooks from the Lowcountry Digital Library
- Babe Ruth’s Scrapbooks – National Baseball Hall of Fame
- Scrapbooks of Harry Houdini
- Coleman Scrapbooks on Kentucky history and events beginning in 1930
- Digital Public Library of America has numerous digitized scrapbooks (individual pages and entire scrapbooks).
- Internet Archive / archive.org also has digitized scrapbooks, but background research will be required with most to learn more about the creator and context.
- Lots more are just an internet search away . . . . .please contact me with the information of especially good examples you find!
- Check your local archives, libraries, and historical societies for more scrapbooks!
Books about the history of scrapbooks and scrapbooking
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- The Scrapbook in American Life edited by Susan Tucker, Katherine Ott, Patricia Buckler, 2006
- Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance by Ellen Gruber Garvey, 2013
- Scrapbooks: An American History by Jessica Helfand, 2008
For more ideas for incorporating historical scrapbooks and scrapbook projects in your classroom see:
Scrapbooks: Comparing 19th-century primary sources to 21st social media