Fern's Heartbreaking Handmade Autograph Album vintage colored pencil drawing 'Vogan' shows some old presence

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

who signed it

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

and even better in person

Fern's Heartbreaking Handmade Autograph Album vintage colored pencil drawing 'Vogan' shows some old presenceI 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