Horses. Trotting – Historic Reproduction
![Horses. Trotting, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3f/3fd43b587eac-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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Muybridge's trotting horse is the one plate here that shows a working gait in motion rather than a standing or walking animal. The sequence was made at Leland Stanford's Palo Alto property in 1878 and 1879, when Muybridge set a row of cameras along a track and tripped their shutters with threads as the horse passed. This print is no. 28 from *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, published in 1881, where it appears among the consecutive frames that helped settle a long-running argument about whether all four hooves leave the ground at once during a trot. The series is a landmark in the history of motion study and an early step toward 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. 28. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,121 × 4,093 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226677 |
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