Eadweard Muybridge photograph collection, 1868-1929
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This collection includes original Muybridge glass plate negatives and prints, as well as modern day copy prints of his photographs. Original materials, 1872-1880, include images of the Stanfords' residences in Sacramento and San Francisco, other unidentified estates, and two printed cards from his horse in motion series, 1878. Images represented by copy prints include Canadian Pacific Railway, Indians, San Francisco, Oakland, and several Central America photographs. Also included in the collection is a set of glass slides, primarily of images included in this collection, probably assembled by Harry C. Peterson, former curator of the Stanford Museum.
Description
| Type of resource | still image |
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| Extent | 8 |
| Place | California |
| Publication date | 1868 - 1929 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904 |
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Subjects
| Subject | Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904 |
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| Subject | Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893 > Homes and haunts |
| Subject | Palo Alto Stock Farm (Calif.) |
| Genre | Graphic |
| Genre | Glass plate negatives |
| Genre | Albumen prints |
| Genre | Photoprints |
| Genre | Photonegatives |
Bibliographic information
| Biographical/Historical | American photographer known especially for his landscape views of the western United States, South and Central America, and for his photographic studies of animals in motion, Muybridge worked closely with Senator Leland Stanford on horse in motion experiments in Sacramento and Palo Alto, California. |
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| Location |
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/ff991hz8300 |
| Location | Finding aid |
| Location | Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA 94305 |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections (http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv).