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[Page of text with Index of illustrations" from "The attitudes of animals in motion"]" – Vintage Wall Art

[Page of text with Index of illustrations" from "The attitudes of animals in motion"]", [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic print
[Page of text with Index of illustrations" from "The attitudes of animals in motion"]", [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881.. Historic print from the Movies & Film collection.

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This is the printed index page from Eadweard Muybridge's 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, which lists the photographic plates inside. The sequences it catalogues were made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, on the farm of Leland Stanford, who wanted to settle whether a galloping horse ever has all four feet off the ground at once. Muybridge used a row of cameras with trip wires to capture successive stages of each movement, and the book brought those series to a public curious about how animals actually move.

Created / published[San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881.
Medium1 print : letterpress.
GenreLetterpress works 1880-1890.
NotesIllus. 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, [p. 2]. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from item.
SubjectsAnimal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,132 × 4,093 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-226644

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