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pre-1912 cosmology.
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archive of field art.
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Prevalent Terrors of the Night
Source: Don't. A Friendly Attempt to Correct Some Prevalent Errors in Musical Terminology by George Frederick Root, 1895
Echoes of Old Troublesome Dreams
Source: Song, You'll Always Be the Same Sweet Girl to Me by J. Arthur Nelson, 1901.
Cover source: How I Know by James Swisher, 1881.Inconvenience - Your Most Problematic Dreams
Source: Popular Drugs, Their Use and Abuse by Sydney Hillier, 1910.
Consider the Illumination Required
Source: Report of the Committee to Consider the Laws Relative to the Taxation of Forest Lands by Massachusetts House of Representatives , et al., 1906.
State of the Brain and Body
Source: Report on the State of the Blood and the Blood-Vessels in Inflammation, and on Other Points Relating to the Circulation in the Extreme Vessels by Thomas Wharton Jones, 1891.
Dream 331 Corrigenda
Source: Corrigenda, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 1, 1904.
Source: Every-day Errors of Speech by L. P. Meredith, 1872.Catalogue of the Small Collection of Feelings
Source: Catalogue of a Small Collection of American and Foreign Coins by S. H. Morgan, 1879.
Inconvenience - Introduce Dream Decay
Image source: De la Ténotomie Tous-Cutanée by Charles Phillips, 1841.
Dreams are Grouped and Scattered
Image source: Hawaiian Fishes by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann, 1905.
Inconvenience - Go Ahead and Scream
Image source: Dissections Illustrated by Charles Gordon Brodie, 1892.
If You Suffer
Sources:Many Drugs, Few Remedies by Geo. T Welch, 1885.Powdered Vegetable Drugs by Albert Schneider, 1902.
Dream 91 Corrigenda
Source: The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1813.
Source: On Change program by Charing Cross Theatre, 1885.Take Anxiety by the Hand
Image source: Dissections Illustrated by Charles Gordon Brodie, 1892.
Source: The Morbid Anatomy of the Brain by Alexander Monro, 1827.
Image source: Les Acariens Parasites by Pierre Mégnin, 1892.This archival drawer holds completed work, scraps, rough edges, and ongoing mistakes.
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