Horses. Trotting – Historic Print
![Horses. Trotting, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/da/dad456a2e7f8-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 Horses. Trotting in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Plate 26 in Eadweard Muybridge's 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* shows a trotting horse drawing a light carriage, one of the sequences made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. Muybridge arranged a row of cameras along a track and triggered them as the animal passed, breaking a single movement into a series of separate exposures. The project was backed by Leland Stanford, a former governor of California with a stake in harness racing, who wanted to settle whether all four hooves leave the ground at once during a trot. Viewed in sequence, these frames became some of the earliest scientific studies of motion recorded photographically.
| 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. 26. 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 | 5,165 × 4,115 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226675 |
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