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Title: The horse in motion
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 - "Occident," owned by Leland Stanford, being driven by Marvin at a 2.20 gait, over the Palo Alto track, 20th June, 1878. On verso: Explanation of each image.
Part of work by Muybridge on photographing and recording horses in motion.
Also have negative: no. 25,677 (4x5 in.)
Mary P. Freeman;
1990-0525.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on boudoir card ; 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001442847CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Animal locomotion
Harness racing--California--Palo Alto
Horses--California--Palo Alto
Palo Alto (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Boudoir card photographs
Motion study photographs
Albumen prints
Place: California
Palo Alto
Palo Alto (Calif.)

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