Writing with scissors
Subtitle: American scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance
By: Ellen Gruber Garvey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780195390346; 9780199927692
Subjects: Scrapbooks; History; Scrapbooking
Description: Featuring over 50 rare and hard-to-find illustrations, 'Writing with Scissors' presents a fascinating cultural history of scrapbooks in America.
Table of contents: title: Reuse, recycle, recirculate : scrapbooks remake value; title: Mark Twain's scrapbook innovations; title: Civil War scrapbooks : newspaper and nation; title: Alternative histories in African American scrapbooks; title: Strategic scrapbooks : activist women's clipping and self-creation; title: Scrapbook as archive, scrapbooks in archives; title: The afterlife of the nineteenth-century scrapbook : managing data and information.