Scrapbook (book binding structure)
A book used to store a variety of memorabilia, such as clippings, pictures, and photographs. Generally produced as a blank book and then filled in by the user, though printed and manuscript volumes have been reused as scrapbooks. A scrapbook is distinguished from a photographic album (photo album) by the variety of materials it contains, though there is significant overlap between the two in terms of structure and function.
Related Terms
Synonyms in English
album, blank book, blankbook, scrap album, scrap-book
Translation
English | scrapbook |
French | recueil de collages, un scrapbook |
French (Québec) | créacollage, collimage |
Spanish | álbum de recortes |
Portuguese | |
Italian | album di ritagli |
German | Sammelalbum |
Russian | |
Arabic | |
Chinese (Traditional) | 剪貼簿 |
Chinese | jiǎn tiē bù (transliterated Hanyu Pinyin), jian tie bu (transliterated Pinyin without tones), chien t'ieh pu (transliterated Wade-Giles) |
Dutch | plakboeken, plakboek |
Swedish | klippalbum, klippbok |
Discussion
A more in-depth discussion of the nature of scrapbooks and their conservation and preservation is located in the Book Conservation Wiki's page on BPG Scrapbooks.
References
"Scrapbook." 2005. A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology. Society of American Archivists. Accessed August 12, 2015. http://www2.archivists.org/glossary.
"Scrapbooking" Wikipédia (French). Accessed August 12, 2015. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapbooking.
"Scrapbooks". 2004. Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online. Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Trust. Accessed August 12, 2015. http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/.
Etherington, Don, and Roberts, Matt T. 1982. "Blankbook". Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books, A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology. Accessed August 12, 2015. http://cool.conservation-us.org/don//.
Horton, Richard. 2000. “Glossary of Terms Relating to Photo Albums” in Conservation of Scrapbooks and Albums: Postprints of the Book and Paper Group/Photographic Materials Group Joint Session at the 27th Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. 21-28. AIC, Washington, DC. Note that this term was accidentally omitted from the 2011 version of this text.
Horton, Richard. 2012. “Glossary” in Hand Bookbinder's Guide to Making Photo Albums. 75-88. Published by the author.