Use but little moisture and only on the gummed lines. Press the scrap on without wetting it. Twain held patents in England, France and the U.S. and worked hard to improve his self-pasting methods. Thus begins an era where people may clip photographs as well as the written word from the newspaper and other publications. 1880 E. W. Gurley publishes Scrap-books and How to Make Them, a book that notes the foolishness of letting a good article go to waste.
Scrapbooks are necessary.
The American public now has 8000 newspapers, as opposed to 2 in the times of Franklin. 1881 Frederick Ives invents photoengraving process. Frederick E. Ives further develops the halftone engraving process such that it becomes possible to reproduce photographic images in the same operation as printed text. Eastman markets the Kodak camera and roll film. In the preface, he acknowledges his debt to William Dorsey and his collection of scrapbooks.