My father bought this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._McSwain man's scrapbook accidentally at a garage sale a couple years ago. I want to take high quality-photos of every page and post them online where historians could use it as a primary source or anyone who is curious could read its contents, but I don't know how to take these photos without damaging its pages. I know I could use my phone to take photos and put an album on imgur, but I think the lighting would be poor and the image quality low. I am pretty certain it's authentic, it is mostly newspaper clippings related to court cases in South Carolina. I can post photos I took with my phone camera if there's interest but ultimately I want something better.
Edit: https://imgur.com/a/lvjmMBZ I know this isn't sufficient to verify it's real but here's a dated passage in the book from 1903.
It looks like the archives at Duke University currently has his papers. Are you anywhere near there? I would contact them and see if they're interested. They will likely have book scanner that can digitize this. Scrapbooks are notoriously difficult to preserve. I've seen some with that black paper in my work as an archivist, and the paper is always poor quality. The best thing to do is digitize, and then drop the original in a box somewhere in an archives and never touch it again. The more you handle it the worse it will get.