Author: Susan Tucker
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781592134786
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This book explores the history of scrapbook-making, its origins, uses, changing forms and purposes as well as the human agents behind the books themselves. Scrapbooks bring pleasure in both the making and consuming - and are one of the most enduring yet simultaneously changing cultural forms of the last two centuries. Despite the popularity of scrapbooks, no one has placed them within historical traditions until now. This volume considers the makers, their artefacts, And The viewers within the context of American culture. The volume's contributors do not show the reader how to make scrapbooks or improve techniques but instead explore the curious history of what others have done in the past and why these splendid examples of material and visual culture have such a significant place in many households.
The Scrapbook in American Life
Author: Susan Tucker
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781592134786
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This book explores the history of scrapbook-making, its origins, uses, changing forms and purposes as well as the human agents behind the books themselves. Scrapbooks bring pleasure in both the making and consuming - and are one of the most enduring yet simultaneously changing cultural forms of the last two centuries. Despite the popularity of scrapbooks, no one has placed them within historical traditions until now. This volume considers the makers, their artefacts, And The viewers within the context of American culture. The volume's contributors do not show the reader how to make scrapbooks or improve techniques but instead explore the curious history of what others have done in the past and why these splendid examples of material and visual culture have such a significant place in many households.
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781592134786
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This book explores the history of scrapbook-making, its origins, uses, changing forms and purposes as well as the human agents behind the books themselves. Scrapbooks bring pleasure in both the making and consuming - and are one of the most enduring yet simultaneously changing cultural forms of the last two centuries. Despite the popularity of scrapbooks, no one has placed them within historical traditions until now. This volume considers the makers, their artefacts, And The viewers within the context of American culture. The volume's contributors do not show the reader how to make scrapbooks or improve techniques but instead explore the curious history of what others have done in the past and why these splendid examples of material and visual culture have such a significant place in many households.
A North American Rain Forest Scrapbook
Author: Virginia Wright-Frierson
Publisher: Walker Childrens
ISBN: 9780802786791
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Walk alongside an award-winning nature artist as she observes, draws, paints, and writes about the majesty of the world's largest temperate rain forest. Richly illustrated, evocative, and highly informative, this careful study is an engaging, first-hand look at an ecological treasure. CBC Not Just for Children Anymore!, 2000 CCBC Choices, 2000 John Burroughs List of Nature Books for Young Readers, 1999 New York Public Library's One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing, 1999 Ohio Reading Circle, 2000 Society of School Librarians International Book Award (Honor Book), 1999-2000
Publisher: Walker Childrens
ISBN: 9780802786791
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Walk alongside an award-winning nature artist as she observes, draws, paints, and writes about the majesty of the world's largest temperate rain forest. Richly illustrated, evocative, and highly informative, this careful study is an engaging, first-hand look at an ecological treasure. CBC Not Just for Children Anymore!, 2000 CCBC Choices, 2000 John Burroughs List of Nature Books for Young Readers, 1999 New York Public Library's One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing, 1999 Ohio Reading Circle, 2000 Society of School Librarians International Book Award (Honor Book), 1999-2000
American Country Scrap Quilts
Author: Marianne Fons
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 9780875966267
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Presents thirty-one projects for constructing "scrap" quilts--a style which utilizes as many as several hundred different fabrics--and offers sewing tips, quilting ideas, and timesaving cutting charts
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 9780875966267
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Presents thirty-one projects for constructing "scrap" quilts--a style which utilizes as many as several hundred different fabrics--and offers sewing tips, quilting ideas, and timesaving cutting charts
The United States Air Force Scrapbook
Author: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates Inc
Publisher: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates
ISBN: 9780883636251
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Thoughtfully designed and beautiful produced, these four handsome volumes give the scrapbooker the opportunity to preserve and present the professional successes of the members--and former members--of the United States of Armed Forces. They provide a special place to keep and display photographs, mementos, letters, and stories as a personal testament to one's accomplishments. Each scrapbook contains: - A removable section offering scrapbook-making ideas and techniques, sample projects, and instructions on using the album- 20 decorative pages printed with military-inspired borders and patriotic motifs, protected in clear acetate sleeves- 16 top-loading poly sleeves
Publisher: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates
ISBN: 9780883636251
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Thoughtfully designed and beautiful produced, these four handsome volumes give the scrapbooker the opportunity to preserve and present the professional successes of the members--and former members--of the United States of Armed Forces. They provide a special place to keep and display photographs, mementos, letters, and stories as a personal testament to one's accomplishments. Each scrapbook contains: - A removable section offering scrapbook-making ideas and techniques, sample projects, and instructions on using the album- 20 decorative pages printed with military-inspired borders and patriotic motifs, protected in clear acetate sleeves- 16 top-loading poly sleeves
Writing with Scissors
Author: Ellen Gruber Garvey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199986355
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
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 Scissors opens a new window into the feelings and thoughts of ordinary and extraordinary Americans. Like us, nineteenth-century readers spoke back to the media, and treasured what mattered to them. In this groundbreaking book, Ellen Gruber Garvey reveals a previously unexplored layer of American popular culture, where the proliferating cheap press touched the lives of activists and mourning parents, and all who yearned for a place in history. Scrapbook makers documented their feelings about momentous public events such as living through the Civil War, mediated through the newspapers. African Americans and women's rights activists collected, concentrated, and critiqued accounts from a press that they did not control to create "unwritten histories" in books they wrote with scissors. Whether scrapbook makers pasted their clippings into blank books, sermon collections, or the pre-gummed scrapbook that Mark Twain invented, they claimed ownership of their reading. They created their own democratic archives. Writing with Scissors argues that people have long had a strong personal relationship to media. Like newspaper editors who enthusiastically "scissorized" and reprinted attractive items from other newspapers, scrapbook makers passed their reading along to family and community. This book explains how their scrapbooks underlie our present-day ways of thinking about information, news, and what we do with it.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199986355
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
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 Scissors opens a new window into the feelings and thoughts of ordinary and extraordinary Americans. Like us, nineteenth-century readers spoke back to the media, and treasured what mattered to them. In this groundbreaking book, Ellen Gruber Garvey reveals a previously unexplored layer of American popular culture, where the proliferating cheap press touched the lives of activists and mourning parents, and all who yearned for a place in history. Scrapbook makers documented their feelings about momentous public events such as living through the Civil War, mediated through the newspapers. African Americans and women's rights activists collected, concentrated, and critiqued accounts from a press that they did not control to create "unwritten histories" in books they wrote with scissors. Whether scrapbook makers pasted their clippings into blank books, sermon collections, or the pre-gummed scrapbook that Mark Twain invented, they claimed ownership of their reading. They created their own democratic archives. Writing with Scissors argues that people have long had a strong personal relationship to media. Like newspaper editors who enthusiastically "scissorized" and reprinted attractive items from other newspapers, scrapbook makers passed their reading along to family and community. This book explains how their scrapbooks underlie our present-day ways of thinking about information, news, and what we do with it.
America's Wartime Scrapbook
Author: Charles A. Numark
Publisher: New Cavendish Books Dist
ISBN: 9781872727141
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Provides an insight into life on the American homefront that will be fascinating to people of all ages.
Publisher: New Cavendish Books Dist
ISBN: 9781872727141
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Provides an insight into life on the American homefront that will be fascinating to people of all ages.
A Negro League Scrapbook
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1635928354
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Featuring lively verse, fascinating facts, and archival photographs, here is a celebration of the Negro Leagues and the great players who went unrecognized in their time. Imagine that you are an outstanding baseball player but banned from the major leagues. Imagine that you are breaking records but the world ignores your achievements. Imagine having a dream but no chance to make that dream come true. This is what life was like for African American baseball players before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. Meet Josh Gibson, called "the black Babe Ruth," who hit seventy-five home runs in 1931; James "Cool Papa" Bell, the fastest man in baseball; legendary Satchel Paige, who once struck out twenty-four batters in a single game; and, of course, Jackie Robinson, the first black player in Major League Baseball, and one of the greatest players of all time. Written by acclaimed author Carole Boston Weatherford with a foreword by Buck O'Neil, a Negro leagues legend whose baseball contributions spanned eight decades, this book is a home run for baseball and history lovers, and makes a great gift for both boys and girls.
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1635928354
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Featuring lively verse, fascinating facts, and archival photographs, here is a celebration of the Negro Leagues and the great players who went unrecognized in their time. Imagine that you are an outstanding baseball player but banned from the major leagues. Imagine that you are breaking records but the world ignores your achievements. Imagine having a dream but no chance to make that dream come true. This is what life was like for African American baseball players before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. Meet Josh Gibson, called "the black Babe Ruth," who hit seventy-five home runs in 1931; James "Cool Papa" Bell, the fastest man in baseball; legendary Satchel Paige, who once struck out twenty-four batters in a single game; and, of course, Jackie Robinson, the first black player in Major League Baseball, and one of the greatest players of all time. Written by acclaimed author Carole Boston Weatherford with a foreword by Buck O'Neil, a Negro leagues legend whose baseball contributions spanned eight decades, this book is a home run for baseball and history lovers, and makes a great gift for both boys and girls.
A Scrapbook of Complex Curve Theory
Author: Charles Herbert Clemens
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 0821833073
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This fine book by Herb Clemens quickly became a favorite of many algebraic geometers when it was first published in 1980. It has been popular with novices and experts ever since. It is written as a book of ``impressions'' of a journey through the theory of complex algebraic curves. Many topics of compelling beauty occur along the way. A cursory glance at the subjects visited reveals a wonderfully eclectic selection, from conics and cubics to theta functions, Jacobians, and questions of moduli. By the end of the book, the theme of theta functions becomes clear, culminating in the Schottky problem. The author's intent was to motivate further study and to stimulate mathematical activity. The attentive reader will learn much about complex algebraic curves and the tools used to study them. The book can be especially useful to anyone preparing a course on the topic of complex curves or anyone interested in supplementing his/her reading.
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 0821833073
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This fine book by Herb Clemens quickly became a favorite of many algebraic geometers when it was first published in 1980. It has been popular with novices and experts ever since. It is written as a book of ``impressions'' of a journey through the theory of complex algebraic curves. Many topics of compelling beauty occur along the way. A cursory glance at the subjects visited reveals a wonderfully eclectic selection, from conics and cubics to theta functions, Jacobians, and questions of moduli. By the end of the book, the theme of theta functions becomes clear, culminating in the Schottky problem. The author's intent was to motivate further study and to stimulate mathematical activity. The attentive reader will learn much about complex algebraic curves and the tools used to study them. The book can be especially useful to anyone preparing a course on the topic of complex curves or anyone interested in supplementing his/her reading.
Samantha's Wedding Memories
Author:
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN: 9781584859697
Category : Aunts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia's 'most exceptional bridesmaid,' Samantha, has made a beautiful scrapbook filled with mementos of her uncle and aunt's romantic courtship and wedding"--Cover bac
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN: 9781584859697
Category : Aunts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia's 'most exceptional bridesmaid,' Samantha, has made a beautiful scrapbook filled with mementos of her uncle and aunt's romantic courtship and wedding"--Cover bac
The American Scrap Book
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description