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Writing with scissors : American scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem renaissance /

Men and women 150 years ago grappled with information overload by making scrapbooks-the ancestors of Google and blogging. From Abraham Lincoln to Susan B. Anthony, African American janitors to farmwomen, abolitionists to Confederates, people cut out and pasted down their reading. Writing with Scisso...

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Main Author: Garvey, Ellen Gruber, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
Subjects and Genres:
Scrapbooking > United States > History.
Cut-out craft > United States > History.
Collimage > États-Unis > Histoire.
Découpages > États-Unis > Histoire.
Cut-out craft.
Manners and customs.
Scrapbooking.
United States > Social life and customs.
United States > History > Sources.
États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes.
United States.
Sources.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Reuse, recycle, recirculate : scrapbooks remake value
  • Mark Twain's scrapbook innovations
  • Civil War scrapbooks : newspaper and nation
  • Alternative histories in African American scrapbooks
  • Strategic scrapbooks : activist women's clipping and self-creation
  • Scrapbook as archive, scrapbooks in archives
  • The afterlife of the nineteenth-century scrapbook : managing data and information.

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