Horses. Trotting – Historic Reproduction
![Horses. Trotting, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/02/029632b81cbe-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Horses. Trotting, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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This albumen print shows a trotting horse drawing a carriage, one of the motion studies Eadweard Muybridge made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. It appeared as plate 29 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, published in 1881, where it was one of a series of consecutive positions meant to be read in order. The series was made for Leland Stanford, who wanted to settle whether a trotting horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once. Muybridge's rows of cameras, triggered by threads stretched across the track, helped turn that dispute into evidence and gave early motion studies a method that later fed into the development of motion pictures.
| Created / published | [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | and LC-USZC4-13695 for images of this index." |
| Notes | Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing various movements; executed at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, no. 29. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Carriages & coaches--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,142 × 4,115 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226678 |
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