Lauren - I love the connex you made between Molly's scrapbooks and Facebook. We've been thinking about the scrapbooks in terms of autobiography -- as hand-crafted personal histories. But the impetus for the exhibition at the American Jewish Historical Society was the digitization of the scrapbooks, which makes them totally accessible in the 21st century...kind of like Facebook profiles. - Evan Kingsley, AJHS
Lauren - I love the connex you made between Molly's scrapbooks and Facebook. We've been thinking about the scrapbooks in terms of autobiography -- as hand-crafted personal histories. But the impetus for the exhibition at the American Jewish Historical Society was the digitization of the scrapbooks, which makes them totally accessible in the 21st century...kind of like Facebook profiles. - Evan Kingsley, AJHS