Situating Jane’s life within a particular historical setting is critical to understanding the significance of the artifacts in her scrapbook. By exploring what was happening in in the world around her, we can better understand Jane's life as part of a larger socio-cultural moment in history. By relating Jane's experiences to broader contexts like the American Depression and women's lives in the 1930s, her scrapbook artifacts take on a multilayered socio-cultural significance.

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