This artist's book, rooted in the history of the medium, questions through meticulous visual montage the historical construction of museum collections. In 2014, while researching, the French artist Dominique Hurth came across four boxes filled with cyanotypes by Thomas W. Smillie, the first curator of the photographic collection of the Smithsonian until the beginning of the twentieth century; from that material she builds a stuttering account of how a collection comes to be made.