National Valentine Collectors Association
Description: The Scrap Album, in examining the history of Victorian Greeting Cards, Valentines and Scraps, aims to illustrate how a small private collection can be used to inspire, inform, educate and give pleasure to people of all kinds.
christmas (2455) greeting cards (1008) victorian (501) easter (358) valentines (105) scraps (45) scrapbooks (36) die-cuts (24) scrap albums (1) glansbilder (1)
Fourth Sammelsurium Freiwaldau 1876 Album page created, and entries, by artist Emily Stregen (1817-1886)
I n the sixteenth century the commonplace book was used to record “good sayings and notable observations”, for the owner it served as a personal repository of wisdom and information.
The development of scrap books and albums date from the 18th century, they contained a wide variety of printed material, as well as paintings, drawings and “...a medley of scraps, half verse and half prose and somethings not very like either, where wise folk and simple alike to combine, and you write your nonsense, that I may write mine.”
National Valentine Collectors Association