Shaped Dreams 1
Image source: A Natural History of the Crinoidea, or Lily-Shaped Animals by John Sebastian Miller, 1821.
Image source: Ice and Ice-Work in Newfoundland by John Milne, John, 1876.
Image source: The Young Astronomer by James Henry Carlisle, 1891. Counterfeit Dreams
Source: A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons by Friedrich Christian Accum, 1822.
The Constricted Dream
Source: Secrets of the Great Mysteries Now Revealed for the First Time by Oudini, c1909.
Source: Can You Believe Me Stories by Alicia Aspinwall, 1909.
Image source: Brain Surgery by Moses Allen Starr, 1893.Inconvenience Number Two - Habits and Discomfort
Image source: Nightmare Tales by H. P. Blavatsky, 1892.
Dream Dialogue No. 7
Image Source: A History of the Art of Magic by T. T. Timayenis, 1887.
Image source: The Nervous System, 1882.Dream Dialogue No. 63
Image source: Wyoming. Why not? by Wyoming Department of Immigration, 1908.
Dream Dispensaries
Source text: Remarks Read Before a Sub-Committee Appointed to Consider the Question of Provident Dispensaries by William Ogle, 1857.
The Force Required to Stop Nightmares
Source text: On the Force Required to Stop a Moving Electrified Sphere by G. Searle, 1907.
Night Sight
Source text: A Popular Guide to the Observation of Nature by Robert Mudie, 1832
Consider the Exertions
This piece can be considered a Convenience OR an Inconvenience, depending upon the intent with which it is used.
Mansion O'Dreams
Source image: A Design for a Governor's Mansion by Alvin Truesdell Tumbleson, 1910
Inconvenience: All Shames
Source Image: Poisonous, Noxious and Suspected Plants of Our Fields and Woods by Anne Pratt, 1866.
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