Fern's Heartbreaking Handmade Autograph Album treen ink bottle though it includes a drawing

though it includes a drawing of the Eugene City Public School fire

is beautifully executed in a variety of shades and textures of cream

and framed in an old black-painted wood frame

There are a couple of light bends/creases--one at lower left

from morning sun till dine

Fern's Heartbreaking Handmade Autograph Album treen ink bottle though it includes a drawingI 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