Welcome to Cottonwood Springs, a fictional,
pre-1912 cosmology.
You have landed in the raw chronological
archive of field art.
To observe the physical labor, process, footnotes, and endnotes behind these intercepts, consult Examine the Evidence in the menu.
Dreams Carried on a Ghost Ship
Image source: The Mirage by DePauw University, 1886.Letter A source: The Celebrated Hans Holbein's Alphabet of Death, 1856.
Find the Hidden Parts of Night-Time Dreams
Image source: The Beauty of the Heavens by Charles F. Blunt, 1842.
Complete Your Dream
Source: Secrets of the Great Mysteries Now Revealed for the First Time by "Oudini", 1909.
Source: Invitation to a Dance, 1891.
Image source: The Brain and Its Diseases by Thomas Stretch Dowse, 1880.
Source: Ice Cream Trade Journal, 1905.
Source: Corrigenda by W. A. Leighton, 1868.
Source: Inexpensive Changes by Annie Isabel Willis, 1891.Echoes of Old Troublesome Dreams
Source: Song, You'll Always Be the Same Sweet Girl to Me by J. Arthur Nelson, 1901.
Dream 331 Corrigenda
Source: Corrigenda, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 1, 1904.
Catalogue of the Small Collection of Feelings
Source: Catalogue of a Small Collection of American and Foreign Coins by S. H. Morgan, 1879.
Dreams are Grouped and Scattered
Image source: Hawaiian Fishes by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann, 1905.
If You Suffer
Sources:Many Drugs, Few Remedies by Geo. T Welch, 1885.Powdered Vegetable Drugs by Albert Schneider, 1902.
Source: On Change program by Charing Cross Theatre, 1885.
Image source: Les Acariens Parasites by Pierre Mégnin, 1892.Medals and Diplomas at the Visionary's Fair
Source: Standard Tool Co.'s Twist Drills, Reamers, Taps, Spring Cotters, Flat and Riveted Keys Catalogue, 1895.
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