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

and even better in person

F) certainly has had a gift for designing compelling iconography

I believe it likely dates to the late 19th century or so

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