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The screen features a scrapbook on a table, hands visible at the edge, with digital text and image superimposed over the otherwise blank central space.

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Following Thomas Masters, I’d suggest that scrapbooks, like archival research more generally, involve a reader’s constructive, subjective ordering and making meaning out of what he or she chooses to examine” (157). It’s about the interpretive frameworks and dispositions he/she brings to the text and the connections he/she forges within them. As Dorothy put it—playfully so—while anticipating the various ways Fred might read and respond to her 1947 ransom-style love letter: “It’s all in how you take it. Moo.”