Reviewing Our Scrapbooks 

Introduction

I've been thinking a lot about not only the scrapbooks that I made when I was younger and in school, but also about the scrapbooks that I have collected from my parents and grandparents and the ones I have access to when I volunteer at the local historical society. 

There are a lot of websites, blogs and YouTube channels and even some social media accounts which focus on making scrapbooks and the history of scrapbooks. Funny enough, while starting this writing, the child actor on the TV show I am watching is working on a scrapbook of the 1960s space race for school. There are all sorts of different types of scrapbooks to review.

The first three scrapbooks on the agenda are the popstar scrapbook from the early 1990s, a "safety" scrapbook from the 1940s, and a deconstructed scrapbook from around 1970.

This is what I called the "Star Scrapbook" it has items from 1991 to 1993 inside. 

Especially a lot of cut outs of my fan favorite Richard Grieco. 

Here is just one of the random pages from the middle. I was obsessed with Richard Grieco at the time. I didn't even watch 21 Jump Street that often. Somehow I always just missed seeing it or was watching something else when it came on. But the teenage me did think Grieco was the better choice over Johnny Depp. I had a lot of pen pals at the time and we could trade different things through the mail, and one thing that I would receive is different Richard Grieco magazine clippings from other countries from my friends. 

This random collection of papers and photos is what I call a deconstructed scrapbook. It was a barely full scrapbook that my mother had created as a child. I did not want to throw it out, so I took the pages out and threw away the rest of the blank book. I keep the deconstructed part in an envelope. The scrapbook has photos and diary type entries of a school trip. 

This Scrapbook is from my grandfather when he was in school in the 1940s. It is a "safety scrapbook". Inside are newspaper articles from automobile accidents and other emergencies that led to deaths. There is a small section that has information on actual safety, but the rest is just a lot of tragedy. 

This scrapbook has interesting information in it, and also may hold genealogy information for some families. findagrave

Once I started thinking of scrapbooks, I realized how many scrapbooks I actually had. I have 3 or 4 more "Pop star" scrapbooks, one for a wedding, and a whole bunch at the local historical society where I volunteer (that range from early 1900s to 2000s). 

The next blog I am going to go into a more detailed review of one of the scrapbooks.