My first scrapbook
that I shared with you was based on the scrapbooks my mother had. Yes, she was scrapbooking in the early
1950's. She had scrapbooks that were of
ticket stubs, cards she'd received, etc.
She also had photo albums that had black pages, she used photo corners
to hold the photos onto the page and she labeled her pictures using white
ink. I loved looking at her scrapbooks
and photo albums.
My second scrapbook
was actually homemade in a mother and daughter's club that all the neighbor
ladies started with us girls. I'm not
sure where that book went to but it was mostly birthday and Valentine cards I
received. My first photo album was after
I got a camera of my own and I was probably around 10. Film and developing were expensive so I
didn't get to take too many pictures.
Later I received one of the first inexpensive Polaroid cameras. That film was expensive but you didn't have
to develop it.
I continued to enjoy
my mom's albums and when I got to high school I bought myself a scrapbook and
created an album that contained photos, memorabilia, and journaling. It was about my senior year of high school. So in 1974, I created my first scrapbook that
had photos in it. To me that was very
unique because I had never seen photos mixed in with memorabilia in one album. When you bought a photo album, it said that
on the front cover , was wider than it was tall and had black pages. A scrapbook said scrapbook on the cover, was
taller than it was wide and had gray or manila colored pages.
Who knew that 20
years later scrapbooking would become a booming industry and a passion for so
many of us.
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