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Article: Adventures in Asia
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 5, 2009
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A century before the modern rise of scrapbooking, Isabella
Stewart Gardner was an enthusiastic and artful practitioner.
In 1883, she and her husband, Jack, left Boston on a yearlong
journey through Asia. While Jack kept track of the financial details
(the trip cost $23,500), his wife kept a journal and collected menus
and maps, flowers and leaves, pictures of rulers and the national
flags of the countries they visited. Instead of shooting their own
pictures, which then involved cumbersome equipment and a certain
level of skill, the Gardners bought commercial photographs of their
favorite places. With these materials, Isabella put together six
travel albums.
The albums, along with quotations ...