An early art journaler?

My mother was born in the 1930s. During the the 1940s as a teenager she kept scrapbooks.
These weren't thin pretty scrapbooks these were massive ledgers about 3 inches thick and roughly A3
size. She kept two scrapbooks which she filled with black and white photographs from news magazines of  wartime Britain.Film stars, fashion, hair styles, pictures of hat,poems, news articles, animal pictures and anything she found interesting went into these massive tomes. I loved looking at them when I was a child. Unfortunately she donated them to a primary school in the 1970s. I still remember them and the hours I spent looking at them. My mother is now in her 80s, she still continues to cut favourite pictures out of magazines and collects postcards from all around the world which she sticks in her ( now smaller) scrapbooks. Still fascinating to look through.