Welcome to Cottonwood Springs, a fictional,
pre-1912 cosmology.
You have landed in the raw chronological
archive of field art.
To observe to physical labor, process, footnotes, and endnotes behind these intercepts, consult Examine the Evidence in the menu.
Desert and Prairie Fire
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Sources: The Red Desert of Wyoming and its Forage Resources by Aven Nelson, 1898 and “Wonderland Fighting The Flames” Postcard by Wonderland Amusement Park (Massachusetts), 1907.
Hinges Between Worlds
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: Screen Door Fixin's: Columbian All-Steel Screen Door Spring Hinge by Columbian Hardware Co., 1907.
Reread the First Half
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: The Howe System of Teaching Reading: The Word, 1910.
I See Your Ghost
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Image Source: Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art by J. G. Heck, 1852.
Dream Thresholds
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
My Nightmares Told Me
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: The Only Known Negative Metal by Frederick R. Tibbitts, 1899.
The Mythology of My Dreams
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: Tales About the Mythology of Greece and Rome by Peter Parley, 1839.
The More Important Dream
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Image Sources: Dinner menu: S.S. City of Paris, 30th July, 1889. by Inman Line,
U.S.M.S. "St. Paul," February 2, 1900, breakfast menu.
The Wildest Dreams
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Image Source: The Intersection of Circles and the Intersection of Spheres by Benjamin Alvord, 1882.
Allow Everything to be Grist
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Image Source: The Art of Perfumery and the Methods of Obtaining the Odours of Plants by Charles Henry Piesse, 1891.
Why Do I Envy
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: Two New Worlds by Fournier D’ Albe, 1907.A Dream of the Ornamental
Source: Visible Speech, The Science of Universal Alphabets by Alexander Melville Bell, 1867.
The Height of Time
Source: The Clocks of Rondaine, and Other Stories by Frank Richard Stockton, 1892.
Dream Metabolism
Source: Clinical Treatises on the Pathology and Therapy of Disorders of Metabolism and Nutrition by Carl von Noorden, 1905.Image source: Colour by George H. Hurst, 1900.
Red-Hearted Dreamer
Text source: "The Red-Headed Woodpecker a Hoarder" by O. P. Hay, 1887.Image source: A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Health by Wooster Beach, 1847.
Dreams and Intentions Will Wander
Source: "Some Day Your Thoughts Will Wander" by C. Jay Smith, 1908.
Source: Catalogue of Folding Chairs by Buckeye Chair Co., c. 1900.Suggestions for Night Travelers No. 4
Source: Alaska, 1911 : with Arthur Cleveland Bent to gather data on the economic status and geographic distribution of birds and mammals; Included is correspondence, an expense book, maps, reports on the investigations, and photographs by Alexander Wetmore, 1911.
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