| Essentially scrapbooking has been a method of taking | | | | were invented and available to the general public, they |
| family and personal history and preserving it in various | | | | were used in scrapbooks. Usually they would be |
| forms, such as albums in scrapbooks, and in print | | | | mounted with special photomount corners and often |
| media, memorabilia, and of course photographs as well. | | | | there were handwritten notations of what was going |
| While many people believe that the history is short and | | | | on in the picture. Often these older scrapbooks would |
| that is a newer idea, it actually traces back a long way. | | | | also include letters, clippings from newspapers, and a |
| The idea of keeping photos or printed items and | | | | whole lot more. |
| putting them in books is a tradition that traces back to | | | | When it comes to modern scrapbooking, it was not |
| the invention of print and photographs. The history of | | | | until about the 1980s that scrapbooks really began to |
| scrapbooking is a rich one, and it basically is a visual | | | | be a big interested in America. It was Marielen |
| method of storytelling. | | | | Christensen who actually helped to revive this interest |
| Even before photographs were around, back in | | | | in the United States. In 1980 she displayed here more |
| ancient Greece, there was a special notebook, known | | | | than 50 scrapbooks at the World Conference on |
| as the hypomnemata, which was used to record | | | | Records that took place in Salt Lake City, Utah, and |
| things that they had heard, seen, or read that they | | | | then later she would open a scrapbooking store. It was |
| wanted to preserve and remember. Once materials | | | | after this took place that modern scrapbooking in |
| began to be printed, these books turned into books | | | | America began to take off, and today it is till growing in |
| where they would preserve printed materials that they | | | | popularity. |
| found and liked. So, the story actually goes all the way | | | | As you can see, the history of scrapbooking is actually |
| back to the Greeks. | | | | a very rich one and it is interested to see where |
| Of course scrapbooking was around in early America | | | | scrapbooking has come from to what we now have |
| as well if you take a closer look at the history of | | | | today. So, after taking a look at the deep and rich |
| scrapbooking. In fact, some of the most well known | | | | history of scrapbooking, hopefully you are inspired to |
| scrapbookers in early America included Mark Twain | | | | consider recording your own history with a scrapbook |
| as well as Thomas Jefferson. Once photographs | | | | of your own. |