How to Dream
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: How to Sew by National Correspondence School of Dressmaking, 1904.
I Dreamed of the Raven
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: Breeding of the Raven in Pennsylvania by by Richard C Harlow, 1911.
Breathe Through My Dream
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Image source: Keep Your Mouth Shut by Fred Smith and Swan M. Burnett, 1893.
What Must You Ask Yourself
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: What Must I Do to Get Well? And How Can I Keep So? by Elma Stuart, 1898.
Reject Not a Bad Dream
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: Eat Not Thy Heart by Julien Gordon, 1897.
Imagination Alchemy
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: Mental Alchemy by B. Brown Williams, 1853.
What Can I Know
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe, 1873.
Half-Terrors Process
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Image source: Studies in Cell-Division by Douglas H. Campbell, 1890.
Intellectual Myopia
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Image source: A Popular Description of the Human Eye by William Whalley, 1874.
Collate My Dreams
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: Footnotes to Canadian Folksongs by William Wood, 1896.
Composite Portrait of my Illusions
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: Composite Photography Applied to the Portraits of Shakespeare by Walter Rogers Furness, 1885.
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.
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