Image / Photographic apparatus constructed by experimental photographer Eadwaerd Muybridge, Palo Alto, ca.1872-1878

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Title: Photographic apparatus constructed by experimental photographer Eadwaerd Muybridge, Palo Alto, ca.1872-1878
Creator: Muybridge, Eadweard J
Date Created and/or Issued: 1872/1878
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description: Photograph of the apparatus constructed by experimental photographer Eadwaerd Muybridge in order to capture former California Governor Leland Stanford's horse while in motion, Palo Alto, ca.1872-1878. Two men at left attend to a track situated next to a long wall, while others attend to subsequent tracks and a shed inscribed with the numbers 1 through 24 to the right. A box supported by carpenter's benches stands in the right foreground. Trees are visible in the background.
"The components required during the process included twelve cameras, equipped with 'fast' stereo lenses and an electrically-controlled mechanism to operate the cameras' special shutters. Wires laid underground along the track at 21-inch intervals released the shutter of each camera as the wheels of the sulky made contact. The twelve pictures -- taken in about half a second -- were the result of Muybridge's long work designing and assembling the equipment used (in conjunction with a group of scientists & engineers) and formulating the vital chemical recipe to develop clear photographs of fast movement." -- from the California Museum of Photography homepage, http://photo.ucr.edu/photographers/muybridge/default.html.
Type: image
Format: 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier: chs-m10801
USC-1-1-1-10951 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7313
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10801
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7313.jpg
Subject: Photographers--Muybridge, Eadweard J
Photography, High-speed
Photographers
Horses
Cameras
Sports facilities
Time Period: 1872/1878
Place: California
Palo Alto
Santa Clara
USA
Source: 1-22- [Microfiche number]
7313 [Accession number]
CHS-7313 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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