Fern's Heartbreaking Handmade Autograph Album vintage colored pencil drawing combined with the way her

combined with the way her hair falls almost like a shroud

it would make sense that she would receive Christmas and New Year’s greetings from Vytlacil and his wife Elizabeth (Betty)

'Vogan' shows some old presence in Northwest Pennsylvania and possibly the Southern tier of New York state where this drawing was found

I've photographed it in two different lighting conditions to try to give the best sense of the sampler and details as possible

who signed it

Fern's Heartbreaking Handmade Autograph Album vintage colored pencil drawing combined with the way herI can't help to invent whole stories about things like this, and this one both warms and breaks my heart. I can't quite tell from the cover whether this belonged to Fern, or Fern was the name of her school, or her name was D. Fern at any rate, certainly some young girl, perhaps in absence of a fancier option, determined to make her own autograph book, presumably to capture the signatures of her school friends. She filled each and every page with a