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This scrapbook was likely compiled by L. H. P. Farrar of Boston, Massachusetts, around 1876. The bulk of the scrapbook consists of printed, illustrated trade cards from businesses in the Boston area. It also includes twelve collaged scenes of household rooms, where Farrar pasted in clippings and photographs of furnishings alongside samples of wallpaper, tissue paper, or other decorative papers used as background designs or curtains. Several rooms feature hand-drawn or hand-crafted elements, like a hallway door, a piece of furniture, and a child's dress. Rooms depicted include: a hall, a music room, a parlor and back parlor, a library, a sitting room, a dining room, a kitchen, three chambers, and a nursery.

This scrapbook was likely compiled by L. H. P. Farrar of Boston, Massachusetts, around 1876. The volume has an embossed cover with pre-printed, decorative papers affixed to shapes of urns, fans, and stripes, and a statement on the back indicates its design was patented in 1876. The bulk of the scrapbook consists of printed, illustrated trade cards from businesses in the Boston area. Many feature images of animals, flowers and plants, women and children, and various stereotyped representations of women, African Americans, Asians, and laborers.

The volume contains twelve collaged scenes of household rooms, where Farrar pasted in clippings and photographs of furnishings alongside samples of wallpaper, tissue paper, or other decorative papers used as background designs or curtains. Several rooms feature hand-drawn or hand-crafted elements, like a hallway door, a piece of furniture, and a child's dress. Rooms depicted include: a hall, a music room, a parlor and back parlor, a library, a sitting room, a dining room, a kitchen, three chambers, and a nursery.