General view of the Palo Alto Stock Rancho – Vintage Photo Print
![General view of the Palo Alto Stock Rancho, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f9/f92b9ed99ab0-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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General view of the Palo Alto Stock Rancho comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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General view of the Palo Alto Stock Rancho
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The Palo Alto Stock Rancho, a horse-breeding farm that Leland Stanford developed on the peninsula south of San Francisco, is shown here as a broad landscape rather than a close study of animals. Eadweard Muybridge worked at the ranch in 1878 and 1879, when Stanford asked him to settle whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once. This view was published as an illustration in Muybridge's 1881 book on animal locomotion, and the sequence photographs made there are often cited among the roots of motion pictures.
| Created / published | [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Aerial views 1880-1890.Albumen prints 1880-1890. |
| 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, A. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. |
| Subjects | Motion study photographs--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Ranches--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,132 × 4,115 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226647 |
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