Scrapbooks Remake 19th-Century Print Culture

FAIN: FB-53424-07

Ellen Gruber Garvey
New Jersey City University (Jersey City, NJ 07305-1596)

Scrapbooks show us how readers used the 19th-century mass-circulated press. They answer three critical questions about American life in this period: How did individuals develop and negotiate their identities as members of families, racial groups, and political movements? How did they record their lives to give meaning to their own experiences? And how did the new media of this period shape their recording? The formal and informal circuits of recirculation that emerge through what editors called "scissorizing" transform our understanding of American participation in print.

Associated Products

Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance (Book)
Title: Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance
Author: Ellen Garvey
Abstract: This cultural history explores how Americans from all walks of life created scrapbooks to document, share, critique, and participate in a rapidly changing world of information overload. Featuring over sixty rare and hard-to-find illustrations, this book reveals how people have had an interactive relationship with the media since long before the Internet era.
Year: 2013
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/writing-with-scissors-american-scrapbooks-from-the-civil-war-to-the-harlem-renaissance/oclc/775664197&referer=brief_resultshttp://
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780199927692
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

Prizes

Transdisciplinary Book Award
Date: 12/1/2014
Organization: Institute for Humanities Research
Abstract: Presented for a work that exemplifies transdisciplinary, socially engaged humanities-based scholarship.

Waldo Gifford Leland Award
Date: 12/1/2014
Organization: Society of American Archivists
Abstract: Created in 1959, this prize encourages and rewards writing of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of archival history, theory, or practice.

Highly Commended Award
Date: 12/1/2014
Organization: SHARP DeLong Book History Book Prize
Abstract: SHARP annually awards the DeLong Book History Book Prize to the author of the best book on any aspect of the creation, dissemination, or uses of script or print published in the previous year.

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