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Balancing Squalid Experiences

Source: Playground Technique and Playcraft, ed. Arthur Leland and Lorna Higbee Leland, 1910.

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Chimera Prosecution

Source: Encyclopedia of Evidence, ed Edgar W. Camp and John F. Crowe, 1905.

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Fantasies and Their Why

Source: Garden Frames, Hitchings and Company, 1911.

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Artistic Dreams

Image source: The Beauty of the Heavens by Charles F. Blunt, 1842.

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Purity at Play

Convenience 117

The memory of dreams assumes intensity,

and it is certain that between love and tumult

there is always purity at play.

Source: The Psychology of Attention by Th. Ribot, 1890.

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October Belladonna

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Startling Facts

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Two Words Woven into my Dreams

Source: Colour in Woven Design by Roberts Beaumont, 1890.

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Where Do I Find the Scents

Advertising Art Sources:Lundborg Perfumes, 1898.Delettrez Perfumes and Toilet Soaps, 1901.

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Special Testimonial Works

Source: The Chemistry of Essential Oils and Artificial Perfumes by Ernest John Parry, 1899.

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The Attraction of the Ocular Dream

Visual freedom give the effect of independence

from having to experience

grim realities

Source: Archives of Ophthalmology by American Medical Association, 1879.

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Bazaar of Dreams

Source: Browsing Among Books, and Other Essays by Abba Goold Woolson, 1881.

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Lies I Did Not Intend to Tell

Source: "I Wonder if Ever the Rose" by David Slater, David, composer, 1906.

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Counting the Black Dreams

Source: The Darkness of London Air by W. Hargreaves Raffles, 1890.

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To Fully Inhabit

To fully inhabit the form and color of dreams

terminate the normal

and change attachments

Source: Inheritance of Flower-Form and Color in Digitalis, 1911.

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Experimental Lecture

Image source: A Series of Anatomical Plates by Jones Quain, Sir Erasmus Wilson, and Joseph Pancoast, 1843.

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Full-Throated Agreement

Source: A Series of Anatomical Plates by Jones Quain, Sir Erasmus Wilson, and Joseph Pancoast, 1843.

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I Try and Mean to Focus

I Try & Mean to Focus

but I cannot sustain the bold strategy

for the visions have come again in my sleep,

and I am afraid.

Sources:[garden notes] by Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 1828.I Try, & Mean to Gain One More Friend by John Crane of Bromsgrove, 1800.I Cannot Sing the Old Songs by Claribel, 1876.

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Consider the Level of Ease

Source: Freehand Perspective and Sketching by Dora Miriam Norton, 1909.

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Lesson in the Tapestry of Dreams

A Lesson in the Tapestry of Dreams

by Eminent Women

Accompany us for a lesson in design to be held

in the space over the plush vision which is

narrower at the bottom and level

with the edge of thought.

Source: A Lesson in Tapestry Painting by Emma Haywood, 1889.

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