My grandmother, Iris, was a scrapbooker. She kept many of them. Some contained magazine photos that she had clipped because she found them interesting. She made one for me when I was a young bride with recipes that she thought sounded good and clipped from newspapers and magazines and pasted into an old text book. I still have it, all these years later and it has become a treasure.
I can remember her making paste with flour and water and using that to stick her clippings to the pages of the scrapbooks. It has held up well and over 100 years later many of these items are still stuck tight to the pages
This is one of the older scrapbooks. It is filled with vintage greeting cards, some of which are dated in the early 1900's. The later cards are likely from 1940's.
The book is falling apart and it was decided to digitize it by taking photos of the pages. It is too large to use the scanner
Some of the cards are loose and fun to look at to see if we can identify the people they are from.
These pages of postcard type greeting cards are glued tight and have dates handwritten in pencil of 1909 and 1915 etc. I wish there was a way to remove the cards and read the messages on the backs! Maybe someday I'll try steaming them off the paper pages
Some cards from Camp Grant in Rockford Illinois dated 1918. That would have been near the end of WW1.
Old postcard photos from Niagara Falls.
