Greyhound, running – Historic Reproduction
![Greyhound, running, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3d/3d7c36c4918a-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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This rare historic photograph captures Greyhound, running in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Rather than a horse or a person, this plate shows a greyhound caught mid-stride, one of the animal studies in Eadweard Muybridge's book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*. Muybridge made the series at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, using a battery of cameras to record a moving animal in rapid succession. The project grew out of a long-running question about gait: whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once. This albumen print, copyrighted in 1881, reflects the sequence method that later became central to the development of motion pictures.
| Created / published | [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. |
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| 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. 75. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Running--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Greyhounds--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,143 × 4,104 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226723 |
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