Old Style Scrapbooks with Black Pages - Is there a name?

I used to buy spiral bound ones for my travel scrapbooks, before I got into “real” scrapbooking. Lol. Search on amazon for spiral bound scrapbook black pages.

Nope, you're not a batty old lady     This page is from my older sister's
scrapbook--we think our Mom's embellishments are pretty cool.  It's verrry hard to see, but there are white photo corners holding the pik, just as you
described.

I wish I had a pik of the actual scrapbook to show you. It's  open on the side, ( no binding), and the covers were possibly made of very thick cardboard(?) and there was usually a tassle along the side.


We're not sure if she hand-drew the swirlies and/or used what was called a "french curve". I'd LOVE to know what kind of inks she used that have lasted over 60 years!!! 





I'll  bet you can still find the style you're describing--but it may take quite a search.  I also made one like the kind you're describing---back in the 80's--just like your description, but the pages were manila colored. It is FULL of ephemera---lots of bulky stuff ---and I lovvvve it!    It also has the classic tassle I mentioned above. 
 

I have something VERY cool to tell you---the page above  is from around 1958, before they had acid-free, lignin-free, etc. The entire album is  still completely intact and in pristine condition!  I dunno what kind of inks Mom used, but they have lasted.

My mom and dad both had those lovely photo albums. They were landscape format and they were held together by a string tied through large eyelets.

Unfortunately, they did not journal at all. I tried to record as much as I could before mom died.

I did my wedding album in a Kolo album, with black pages. This one kolo.com/collections/newport-11x14-scrapbook/products/newport-scrapbook-11x14?variant=12959074713688

kolo.com/collections/newport-11x14-scrapbook/products/newport-scrapbook-11x14?variant=12959074713688

It's 11x14 so the size was a little weird, but I love it. No page protectors for this one, I wanted it to look really vintage. Edited to add, I am not sure if they have page protectors, but if they did I did not use them. 

I did recently make a black page scrapbook with ephemera and white pen journaling! I used one of the Dylusions journals from Michaels, but in the end I wouldn’t recommend it. The paper was rather unforgiving - if you stuck something down and changed your mind it would tear as you peeled the thing up. And more importantly, and surprisingly given what the book was designed for, there was no extra space in the spine to make room for sticking things down. I had to slice out lots of pages in the back to keep it from totally busting its binding as I got later in the book. If I’d known/realized I would’ve sliced out pages randomly throughout the book to make room. It got really thick!

Now I use a Travelers Notebook that comes with black pages, it has much better paper, much more forgiving, that I buy from Paper Penguin Co on Etsy.

I did a quick search of “photo albums black pages” and it’s looks like Blue Sky Papers company has a couple of nice options. One is a Moleskine black page journal, but it might have the same issue of not having space in the binding once you actually paste things in. This one looks nice and the most like those older black page photo albums of days of yore www.blueskypapers.com/post-bound-black-page-photo-album.html

You might also search Etsy - some people use them for weddings/guest books. And also search where photographers shop for photo albums.
You could definitely make your own with black cardstock and bind it with a spiral binding machine / take it to an office supply store to be bound/ bind it yourself with stitching.