Page from Carrie Bishop’s scrapbook with mementos from a “masque party” she attended in 1916.

Collegiate scrapbooks are no longer a thing. Sure, modern students still take  photographs to document their college years—arguably, they take even more than my generation, thanks to digital cameras–but instead of pasting images into memory books, they post them to Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook. It’s interesting to compare the ephemerality of today’s memory-keeping activities to the materiality of yesterday’s.

Physical scrapbooks fascinate me. I’m a scrapbooker, myself, have been since middle Continue reading →