Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance by Ellen Gruber Garvey

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A very interesting look at the history of American scrapbooking and what the scrapbooks tell us about American history. As a special collections librarian, scrapbooks are some of my favorite artifacts in our collections because they tell the personal histories of ordinary people (and give a more ordinary perspective on more famous people). Garvey weaves all this history together well and I especially enjoyed the chapters on the subversive scrapbooking of African Americans and women's suffrage activists.