Back in 1931 The New Yorker published something called The New Yorker Scrapbook; unfortunately it contained zero cartoons, spots, covers, or illustrations. It’s a collection of writing from the then six year old magazine.
Over the years I’ve come across (either bought, or received as a gift) a number of scrapbooks containing clipped New Yorker art. In some cases they weren’t technically scrapbooks as the art wasn’t glued or pasted in a book, but stuffed in a manila folder. Those loose drawings are fun to look at, but you need to dump them out like Pick up Stix before wading through (I won’t show those here). Below are a few more orderly examples from Ink Spill’s archives.
The first scrapbooks I ever encountered were in a small used bookstore (The Book Cave?) in Woodstock, New York. Two volumes of New Yorker covers, each a three ring binder such as a student would have in high school. Someone had (unfortunately) used reinforcement hole protectors on every cover in the earlier binder. The earliest cover, seen on the left, is dated November 24, 1928 (artist: Julian de Miskey) — that’s a Helen Hokinson cover on the right. The last cover in the binder, barely visible in the photo (it’s the pink cover peeking out from the bottom) was the last cover of the 1930s (artist: Charles Addams).
The second volume, spared the hole reinforcements, picked up in the 1940s. 
Shown here: Rea Irvin‘s terrific cover of July 15, 1944 commemorating D-Day.
A more recent arrival to the Ink Spill archives (courtesy of a relative) is dated 1939-1940. The scrapbook contains carefully arranged New Yorker spot drawings. Though the pages are brittle the cover has aged well as have the spots:
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Attempted Bloggery finishes up its week-long look at some of Peter Arno‘s work for College Humor. Kudos to Stephen Nadler for the great detective work resulting in this fine series.