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Consider the Exertions

This piece can be considered a Convenience OR an Inconvenience, depending upon the intent with which it is used.

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Mansion O'Dreams

Source image: A Design for a Governor's Mansion by Alvin Truesdell Tumbleson, 1910

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Inconvenience: All Shames

Source Image: Poisonous, Noxious and Suspected Plants of Our Fields and Woods by Anne Pratt, 1866.

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How, When, and Where to Sow Dream Seeds

Source text: Ninth Annual Catalogue of Vegetable, Agricultural, and Flower Seeds, by Geo. S. Haskell & Co; 1872.

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Plainly Show the Wound

Here is another example of a Convenience in Primitive-School style. Source: Farm Conveniences, by Byron David Halsted, 1884.

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Inconvenience: Poisoning Dreamers 12

Image source: A Practical Handbook of Medical Chemistry Applied to Clinical Research and the Detection of Poisons by William Houston, 1880.

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Thousands of Night Thoughts and Dreams

Image source: Das Sonnen-System, by Adam Christian Gaspari, Franz Ludwig Gussefeld, F.L. Guessefeld, C. Westermayr, 1801.

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Inconvenience: Poisoning Dreams 60

Image source: A Practical Handbook of Medical Chemistry Applied to Clinical Research and the Detection of Poisons by William Houston, 1880.

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Peculiarities of the Inconvenience

Image and text source: The Opium Habit and Alcoholism by Frank Hubbard, 1881.

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Some Old Dreams

Source text: Some Old Egyptian Librarians by Ernest Cushing Richardson, 1911.

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Dream 9 Errata

Image source: Machine Embroidery Hand-book, Domestic Sewing Machine Company, 1886.

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Domestic Dream Work 1

Source text: Machine Embroidery Hand-book, Domestic Sewing Machine Company, 1886.

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Hand Book No. 44

Image source: Popular Pastimes for Amusement and Instruction, Henry Davenport Northrop, 1901.

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Random Dreaming 1

Image source: Popular Pastimes for Amusement and Instruction, Henry Davenport Northrop, 1901.

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Dream Direction

Image from Comparative Osteology by Joseph Maclise, 1847.

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What is Genre Dreaming?

Source text: The Masters of Genre Painting by Sir Frederick Wedmore, 1880.

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Sifted Dream Seeds

Source: How to Make a Vegetable Garden by Edith Fullerton, 1905.

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Proposal for Dream Research

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Dream Transition Spiral

Source: The Railway Transition Spiral by A. N. Talbot, 1901.

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Contaminated Dreams and Misery

This archival drawer holds completed work, scraps, rough edges, and ongoing mistakes.

It holds everything that was found, blacked out, scribbled over, finished, unfinished, discarded. It all counts.

Come back next week to see more ephemera.