Barbara Bush was a Scrapbooker

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  1. lmccandless

    lmccandless The Force is strong with this one. Boss of the Applesauce

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    I love this so much! Looking forward to some free time to peruse her scrapbooks. TFS!
     
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  2. Pachimac

    Pachimac Give me all the cliché Christmas movies

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    I'd love to see those!!
     
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  3. HavaDrPepper

    HavaDrPepper Space. The final frontier

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    I received a package of items from Dad's significant other after he passed away in 2016. There were several envelopes of photos that I had never seen and no names on them. I know the time frame was 1948-1952 because they appeared to all be from his days in the Navy. Most of them are photos with lots of people in them, not necessarily posed group photos and I think he is in some of them but I would have no idea who anyone else was or even where they were taken. Since he was on a ship that was in the Asiatic area and also at one time, the Mediterranean, the photos could be from anywhere. But, I will never know.

    Mom was another story. She wrote on the backs of photos if they weren't in the old style scrapbooks. When magnetic albums came out, she was a big fan of them. Some of those she even put strips of paper listing who was in the photos underneath them besides having the names on the back. I hope to someday move all of her stuff from those magnetic albums to more photo safe alternatives like I did with their wedding photos and my childhood photo albums.
     
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  4. pbrooks

    pbrooks I need a realtor!

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    That is awesome! I would love to see them. I am going to google her. So sad that her husband was taken to the hospital.
     
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  5. NancyP

    NancyP All you need is a little bit of pixie dust

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    Yes, I've said it many times-----LABEL THOSE PHOTOS!! I read these posts and know exactly how you feel. I have 6 of my late husband's albums from when he grew up in Germany and have NO idea who are in those photos. I only recognize him, his parents and sister. I totally blame myself because I should have sat down with him years ago and labeled every photo----but back then I was not into scrapbooking and didn't realize how important it was. Now it breaks my heart that there are aunts, uncles, cousins etc in those photos and I will never know who is who and what their names are.
     
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  6. Sokee

    Sokee What we do in life echoes in eternity

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    How cool is that!!! Thanks for letting us know, off to check it out!
     
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  7. EHStudios

    EHStudios I am more clever than I think

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    Will be watching this today!! So so cool!!
     
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  8. Karen

    Karen Wiggle it, just a little bit!

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    That is SO cool! I bet they are super interesting too!
     
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  9. jenn mccabe

    jenn mccabe She's OUR sunshine!

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    Oh wow! Pretty cool ... I'm with Laura ... would love to go through this more when I have a bit of time. It looks so interesting. Thank you for shairng with us.
     
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  10. cookingmylife

    cookingmylife Pizza would be my last meal, except ...

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    That's great info there! Thanks for the info and I did enjoy the short video.

    I have one album from my first wedding that was done in a huge but not that huge scrapbook which seemed to be around for newspaper size clippings. I started when we got engaged and it does say Washington Post on the front faux(?) leather cover. I wonder if they still make them!
     
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  11. bbymks5

    bbymks5 Where oh where can it be?!?

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    How cool is that!! How did she find the time is the second thing that popped into my head LOL!
     
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  12. ashleywb

    ashleywb Sand in my toes

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    So cool. Thanks for sharing this.
     
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