One of grandma's vintage scrapbooks
My grandmother, Iris, was a scrapbooker. She kept many of them. Some contained magazine photos that she had clipped because she found them interesting. She made one for me when I was a young bride with recipes that she thought sounded good and clipped from newspapers and magazines and pasted into an old text book. I still have it, all these years later and it has become a treasure.
I can remember her making paste with flour and water and using that to stick her clippings to the pages of the scrapbooks. It has held up well and over 100 years later many of these items are still stuck tight to the pages
This is one of the older scrapbooks. It is filled with vintage greeting cards, some of which are dated in the early 1900's. The later cards are likely from 1940's.
The book is falling apart and it was decided to digitize it by taking photos of the pages. It is too large to use the scanner
Some of the cards are loose and fun to look at to see if we can identify the people they are from.
These pages of postcard type greeting cards are glued tight and have dates handwritten in pencil of 1909 and 1915 etc. I wish there was a way to remove the cards and read the messages on the backs! Maybe someday I'll try steaming them off the paper pages
Some cards from Camp Grant in Rockford Illinois dated 1918. That would have been near the end of WW1.
Old postcard photos from Niagara Falls.
3 cent stamps on the envelopes
Hope you enjoyed seeing these old vintage greeting cards.
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That must be a huge treasure for you, part of your history. They are also very well kept and still in a very good condition Melinda.
I think my great-grandparents were also living in that era.
I have always valued our family history. I think that was instilled in me by my grandparents who told the old stories as a youngster I remember sitting on grandma's lap and looking through her scrapbooks with her.
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Wow, that was really amazing, Mom. It was an unforgettable experience and memory. The books are still kept. It was amazing. It was in the 1900s. I wasn't born in this world yet. It was amazing.This is the most important thing and the most amazing memory that grandma left for you mom, it's so amazing ❤️🙏
The memories that my grandparents left us are the most valuable things I own. I think the day will come when your descendents will go back and read your posts... the blockchain will be our scrapbook.
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That's right mom, I hope so too ❤️🙏
Some of these cards are so beautiful, it's lovely that granny Iris have kept them so you and all your descendants can see them. She was very thoughtful and made sure you was well prepared to become a good wife by making you that scrapbook, what a dear❤️
Do you have more to show us? Look forward to seeing them
The cookbook she created was only one of many items she made to fill my 'hope chest'. She made quilts, embroidered pillow cases, and crocheted doilies. All are special treasures from an incredibly special woman. She taught me so much and was my best friend all though my childhood.
Wow, you have a history treasure there. There are so many memories of more than a century. I laughed at the flour and water glue, which I used to boil for later, making mâché paper toys as a child. Good familiar post.
You made your own paste, too? I wonder if anyone still does that?
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Hello, happy evening, you know, I have only seen two handmade books, both by two people who survived the Second World War.
One was that of a friend's dad, who collected tax stamps and had placed them in a handmade book with homemade starch.
And the other one was that of a friend, a great Jewish friend, who had kept photos, drawings and written memories in a handmade book as well.
Now I see the ones you put up, that your grandmother made them, but with more cheerful motives and memories.
Your post reminded me of the old friends Seniw and Daniel.
Thanks for that.
I'm so glad this post brought you good memories of your friends. A very wise person once told me that the best gift we can give the people we love is memories.
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An interesting collection of memories, treasures of memory.
One might certainly be curious to see the other side of the cards, but one must be very careful when peeling them off the sheet, as it would be terrible if the card were damaged.
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We are lucky that our collection of memories can be stored in our posts on the blockchain. They won't deteriorate. Of course I won't do anything that might cause harm. I treasure this book too much!
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Wow, Melinda. That is a beautiful way to preserve history. Grandmotherly wisdom that preserves the family memory for the next generations. I think it has great value and the spiritual blessing it has brought to you is felt in the lyrics as you tell us about it.
I am so glad she spent time putting her scrapbooks together. They are treasures. Posting on the blockchain will be our answer to scrapbooking for our descendents!
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For sure. Blessed blockchain that assists us !!! However, I am one of those nostalgic souls who prefer the physical contact with a page or a photograph. Society and its mechanisms for perpetuating its passage evolve at lynx speed but nothing like the process of elaborating these instruments of memory with our own hands.
Greetings @melinda010100, a big hug... I loved, I adored this post, beautiful, I love the historical atmosphere and the emotional charge it contains, you can feel the years gone by and experiences of love and a lot of family unity through time... A big kiss.
Thanks! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
I may have more things like this that I can share!
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Heh, I've started a few scrapbooks over the years but never got more than a few pages into any of them. Did she save anything other than just the postcards?
Recipes, newspaper clippings about people she knew. Anything and everything.
I liked this ad she saved for the bus company my grandpa worked for. Ride the bus home to help your mom with spring cleaning!
i still have something like that as a poetrie album i think somewhere , if it didn't get lost during all the moves i have made in the past , will need to ask the wife if she knows where to find it .
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