Scrapbooks

In a time before inexpensive, widespread photography, giving and receiving locks of hair was fairly common among friends.  School, church or other social groups would collect their members' hair in scrapbooks as records of their time together.

 

Names, dates and short poems of friendship often accompanied locks of hair kept in scrapbooks.  A small snip of hair, sometimes braided into intricate pattern or embellished with a paper cutout, was a personal token of affection that lasted long in memory.