New developments in technology have long been responsible for changes in they way scrapbooking was done. One innovation that had changed the nature of scrapbooks forever was the introduction of the photograph. When photographs became widely accessible to people, scrapbooking ideas became a much more varied and versatile art. Some specific bits of history that we know about the 19th and early 20th centuries were due to scrapbooks being made with photos that had attached captions or scribbling on them. The art of scrapbooking ideas has done a lot to show us how people really lived in those days.