Arts & Crafts
BOTANICA – Mare-Liez Oosthuizen
History of scrapbooking M
any think that scrapbooking is a recent phenomenon, but the history of albums, recognisable as something that we’d call a scrapbook today, dates to not only before the invention of photography, but also to before the origin of the word “scrapbook” itself. The form of scrapbooking has changed over the years, but the history of scrapbooking began in the 15th century in England with friendship albums which included letters, poems, recipes and quotes.
26
my office magazine
After World War I, people collected and saved photos, letters, cards and other memorabilia, but stored them in boxes. From the early 1920’s to 1970, scrapbooking slowly evolved. Over time, preserving family photos, newspaper clippings and drawings were kept in albums with paper pages, held in place with glue or photo corners and with written captions written below photos to document dates and contextual information. The beginning of modern scrapbooking occurred in 1980 at a genealogy event called “The Conference on Records”. August 2022
