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

[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.

(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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Rather than a photograph, this is the printed index page from Eadweard Muybridge's *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, published in San Francisco in 1881. The book collected sequence photographs made at Palo Alto in 1878 and 1879, when Muybridge set a row of cameras along a track and triggered them as animals passed. The project grew from a wager over whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once, a question Leland Stanford wanted settled. The index shows how the plates were organized and labeled for readers of the time.

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. 4]. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from item.
SubjectsAnimal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,028 × 4,033 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-226646

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