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The Horse in Motion: Sallie Gardner, owned by Leland Stanford – Historic Print

The Horse in Motion: Sallie Gardner, owned by Leland Stanford — historic image
The Horse in Motion: Sallie Gardner, owned by Leland Stanford. Historic image from the Horses collection.

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The Horse in Motion: Sallie Gardner, owned by Leland Stanford comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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The Horse in Motion: Sallie Gardner, owned by Leland Stanford

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Sallie Gardner, a bay mare owned by Leland Stanford, is the horse at the center of this photograph. In 1878 Stanford hired Eadweard Muybridge to settle a long-running argument among horsemen about whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once. Muybridge lined a track at Stanford's Palo Alto farm with cameras, each triggered by a tripwire as the horse passed, and the resulting sequence showed that it does. The series became a landmark in the study of motion and a forerunner of motion pictures.

Original scan1,536 × 952 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122821

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