The Leonard Lopate Show: Scrapbooking American History

Scrapbooking American History

Designer and art critic Jessica Helfand writes: “To read another person's scrapbook is to acquire a body of knowledge about an entirely different time and place." We look into the history of scrapbooking, and what it reveals about changes in American cultural life. Ms. Helfand’s recent book is Scrapbooks: An American History.

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Slideshow of images from Scrapbooks

Guests:

Jessica Helfand

Comments [1]

Jeff Peachey

Scrapbooks are perhaps the most endangered of all book species. Even today, they are routinely dismantled, mainly because of the serious challenges for conservators (and the costs that these entail) because of the wide variety of media, adhesives and ephemera contained in them. Books like this help conservators convince clients of the importance of preserving scrapbooks in their entirety, that they are more than the individual items contained within them.
Jeff Peachey
Book Conservator

Dec. 22 2008 03:15 PM

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