The 1930s Scrapbook

by Robert Opie

Celebrates this decade through evocative images.

64 pages, Hardcover

First published August 25, 1997

Reviews

[Jenna · Rating 3 out of 5]

The strength of this book is the colour and imagery (very much in the scrapbook style) that banish any conceptions of the 1930s as only an era of grey and sepia tones steeped in the Depression. The riot of imagery from sheet music to cartoons and labels of all types provide excellent sources for those interested in such topics, or someone researching the era -- but the downside is the lack of any commentary on the images, and the scrapbook quality can also be frustrating as images overlap and additional research/archival research/antique store hunting would be required to fully comprehend what is contained within the sheet music, period pamphlets, etc. showed in this book. Thanks to internet, individual pieces are likely more accessible than ever before, but may still require digging. While hardly surprising given a British publisher, I had hoped with a British/European publisher, there might be some examples of European (i.e. German/Austrian, French, even Eastern or Central European), but such was not the case.

[Lynsey Walker · Rating 4 out of 5]

The aesthetic here is just

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