#scrapbooks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #scrapbooks, aggregated by home.social.
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ABC News (Australia): Rare West Australian seaweed scrapbooks provide glimpse into history. “The State Library of WA is running an appeal to save a set of seaweed scrapbooks created by a renowned WA naturalist around the early 1940s…. Once preserved it is hoped the set of rare scrapbooks could provide valuable insights into WA’s conservation and marine history.”
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: State Archives Makes Scrapbooks Documenting Creation of “Dawn at the Alamo” and “The Battle of San Jacinto” Available. “The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) has announced a new online exhibit for the Henry Arthur McArdle scrapbooks…. Among McArdle’s best-known surviving works are the large-scale battle paintings, ‘Dawn […]
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: State Archives Makes Scrapbooks Documenting Creation of “Dawn at the Alamo” and “The Battle of San Jacinto” Available. “The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) has announced a new online exhibit for the Henry Arthur McArdle scrapbooks…. Among McArdle’s best-known surviving works are the large-scale battle paintings, ‘Dawn […]
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: State Archives Makes Scrapbooks Documenting Creation of “Dawn at the Alamo” and “The Battle of San Jacinto” Available. “The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) has announced a new online exhibit for the Henry Arthur McArdle scrapbooks…. Among McArdle’s best-known surviving works are the large-scale battle paintings, ‘Dawn […]
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: State Archives Makes Scrapbooks Documenting Creation of “Dawn at the Alamo” and “The Battle of San Jacinto” Available. “The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) has announced a new online exhibit for the Henry Arthur McArdle scrapbooks…. Among McArdle’s best-known surviving works are the large-scale battle paintings, ‘Dawn […]
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DigitalNC: Scrapbooks and More From Queens Now Available!. “Thanks to our amazing partners at Queens University of Charlotte, DigitalNC is pleased to announce that over a hundred new literary journals and six new beautiful books are now available online!”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/13/digitalnc-scrapbooks-and-more-from-queens-now-available/
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Brooklyn Rail: Carolee Schneemann’s Digitized Diaries. “[Carolee] Schneemann was a life-long documentor and kept diaries and scrapbooks dating back as early as 1951, now all part of Stanford University’s archives. Following the five year embargo period on their use, the first thirty-six volumes in this collection (1951–78) are now fully digitized and available to view online, providing […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/20/brooklyn-rail-carolee-schneemanns-digitized-diaries/
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Philadelphia Inquirier: Never-before-seen scrapbooks tell the story of Pearl Bailey’s life from North Philadelphia to Hollywood. “Created decades before smartphones could store memories, Bailey’s adventures on Broadway, in Vegas, and at the White House make for an impressive collection of newspaper articles, glossy photographs, letters, cards, and telegrams documenting her […]
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Artist Obituary Scrapbooks from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/libraries-and-research-centers/watson-digital-collections/rare-materials-in-the-met-libraries/artist-obituary-scrapbooks
#Artists #ArtHistory #Archives #MuseumArchive #Obituaries #Newspapers #Scrapbooks -
Ok, I should be working on a tenure review today, but instead am going down internet rabbit-holes. The latest involves a collection of #scrapbooks kept by the students of #AmherstCollege in the late #19c, a young man named William Belcher Whitney included. Here is an esp strange & imho creepy page, on which he's arranged into a heart shape the hairpins he's collected from his acquaintance at #MtHolyoke. There's a great discussion of this book on the Amherst Special Collections blog, ca 2012.
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Time to introduce myself since there are now some others in this breakout room !
I was not long on the other app, but while I was there appreciated the remedy to pandemic loneliness it offered. The interests I hope to share with others here include: #bookhistory, #18thcentury, #romanticism, #novels, #victorian poetry (new obsession), #scrapbooks, #pedagogy , #Clarissa, #TristramShandy.