Horses. Running – Historic Print
![Horses. Running, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e3/e37a4ef45fe9-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. Running, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Among Eadweard Muybridge's Palo Alto studies, this albumen print shows a horse at full run, one of the sequence photographs published in his 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*. The series was made in 1878 and 1879 at Leland Stanford's horse-breeding farm, where Stanford wanted to settle whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once. Muybridge answered that question with a row of cameras triggered by tripwires, and the resulting frames helped lay the groundwork for the moving pictures shown on this board.
| Created / published | [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. |
|---|---|
| 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. 38. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,160 × 4,087 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226687 |
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