Welcome to Cottonwood Springs, a fictional,
pre-1912 cosmology.
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archive of field art.
To observe the physical labor, process, footnotes, and endnotes behind these intercepts, consult Examine the Evidence in the menu.
I've Wondered in Dreams
Source: I've Wandered in Dreams: A Favorite Duet by Josesph Augustine Wade Esqr., 1830,
Source: Corrigenda by W. A. Leighton, 1868.What If Any Changes
Source: 1851-1878 Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Optical, Meteorological and Mathematical Instruments Manufactured and Imported by Goldbacher, 1879.
The Forced Nightmare
Image source: V.W. Brinckerhoff's Wholesale Catalogue of Surgical and Dental Instruments by V. W. Brinckerhoff (Firm), 1859.
A Piece of Knowledge
Source: Catalogue of Patent Diamond Diffusive Reflectors and Lamps by Klemm & Company Publication, 1900.
Image source: Catalogue of Apparatus by Daniel Davis, 1852.Inconvenience - Bottomless Caverns
Source: The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics by Janet McKenzie Hill, 1896.
Can I Recognize New Brilliancy
Image source: Physiology of the Eye, and History of Sight-Restoring Inventions from 1851 to 1873, 1873.
Inconvenience - The Purposely Wayward Dream Sower
Source: Washington Sewer-Cleaning Company, 1892.
Image source: What is Electricity? by John Trowbridge, 1896.
Inconvenience 870 - The Interpretation
Inconvenience 870
The Interpretation
In August 1899 I found an array
of grim gateways to the north of camp no. 4
Source: School Gardening for Little Children by Lucy R. Latter, 1906.
Compilation of Clinical Experiences
Source: Compilation of Laws...Relating to the Public Forest Reserves, by United States, 1900.
Source: Library School Rules, Melvil Dewey, 1905.How Can I Cure My Indignation?
Image source: The Beauty of the Heavens by Charles F. Blunt, 1842.
Corrigenda - Successfully Noxious Suggestions
Source: Vol. XLVI Corrigenda, Publisher Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, 1828.
Source: Wanted: A Correspondent by Thomas Stewart Denison, 1877.Imagination in Blighting Dreams
Imagination in Blighting Dreams
Imagination is one thing; invention is quite another story.
The ordinary individual plans and watches and it means nothing.
But an imaginative woman puts many inventive traces of sorrow in her wake.
Source: Imagination in Business by Lorin F. Deland, 1909.
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