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Title: The stride of a trotting horse
Creator: Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
Contributor: Morse's Gallery
Date Created and/or Issued: c1878
Publication Information: San Francsico: Morse's Gallery
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Twelve automatic electro-photographs - "Abe Edgington," owned by Leland Stanford, being driven by Marvin at a 2.24 gait, over Mr. Stanford's Race Track, at Menlo Park, on 11th June, 1878.
Part of work by Muybridge on photographing and recording horses in motion.
Mary P. Freeman;
1990-0526.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on boudoir card ; 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001442848CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Animal locomotion
Harness racing--California--Menlo Park
Horses--California--Menlo Park
Menlo Park (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Boudoir card photographs
Motion study photographs
Albumen prints
Place: California
Menlo Park
Menlo Park (Calif.)

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