Scrapbook
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A scrapbook is method of preserving memorabilia (such as photos, articles, and memories) by pasting them into an album of blank pages. Such compilations are made personally, not professionally, and hence are highly individualized.
In a fannish context, the subject of a scrapbook is a TV show, movie, band, sports team, or the like; and the contents are chosen by the fan creating the scrapbook. The compiling of scrapbooks reflects the fannish desire to both collect every 'scrap' of information about their fannish obsession as well as preserve those fannish memories.
In the digital age, scrapbooks have become less popular as fannish life migrated online; scrapbooks were mainly popular in the 1960s through the 1990s.
inside page of a fan's Star Trek scrapbook, created in the mid 1970s. This page has photos of the actors in their roles cut from newspapers and other magazines, along with articles. The cuttings were glued into a spiral bound photo album
another page from the same Star Trek scrapbook. At the top is a review of the show published in the March 1967 issue of TV Guide. Another newspaper article talks about how Star Trek avoided cancellation.
on this scrapbook page an ad trumpets that Star trek is being broadcast in color, which, even in the late 1960s was not universal in all TV shows. In the lower right hand corner is an ad for RCA television sets that says: "See Star Trek on RCA Color Tvs."
scrapbooks were not limited to just one TV show. In the upper right is a photo of Leonard Nimoy in a non-Star Trek role. To the left is the fan's 1973 membership card in the Star Trek S.T.A.R. fan club
