In recent years, scholars in rhetoric and composition studies have focused increasingly more attention on “everyday” rhetorical practices, particularly those of marginalized groups, as well as the alternative educational sites where such practices are taught and learned. Feminist historians such as Anne Ruggles Gere, Jacqueline Jones Royster, and Wendy Sharer argue that women’s organizations functioned as significant sites of rhetorical education for women throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, an era in which women were denied access to higher education and public spheres of rhetorical activity. In “Scissors, Paste and Social Change: the Rhetoric of Scrapbooks of Women’s Organizations, 1875-1930,” I extend the focus on women’s organizations as educational spaces by examining the scrapbooks compiled by Progressive Era women in literary and social clubs and reform organizations like temperance and suffrage. I argue that progressive-era women appropriated the gendered genre of the scrapbook to compose vernacular histories of women’s reform efforts that situated women within a larger narrative of citizenship and national progress. Furthermore, I argue that scrapbooks served as sources of invention and self-education, similar in function to commonplace books, even though gendered perceptions of both genres typically assigns commonplace books to public rhetorical pursuits and scrapbooks to private domestic hobbies. Finally, I argue that women in progressive era clubs and organizations developed their own arrangement strategies, such as appropriation, juxtaposition, layering and collage, to represent the complexity of their experiences. While scrapbooks have received limited scholarly attention from scholars such as Patricia Buckler, Susan Tucker and Todd S. Gernes, the focus of existing studies has largely been on the autobiographical qualities of individual scrapbooks, which are often characterized as private, idiosyncratic documents, allowing “silent women to speak.” However, I argue that the scrapbooks compiled by women’s organizations were collective productions of articulate women who intentionally composed scrapbooks for public audiences. In the context of progressive era women’s organizations, scrapbooks constitute a fully public rhetorical practice, one which clubwomen developed for themselves and valued highly.