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Motion Study

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Animals in Motion, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1896
Scope and Contents

Fascimile of 'a reduced scale of series 28 "Animals in Motion" photographed with an automatic electrophotographic apparatus in 1878' by Eadweard Muybridge. The text beneath the image notes that the above series depicted in 19 frames the 'phases of one complete stride of the horse "Edgington" which was owned by Senator Leland Stanford while trotting at a speed of a mile in 2 minutes and 16 seconds at Palo Alto, California in the Spring of 1879.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Conformation Draught Horse, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3073
Scope and Contents

Illustration and text on the conformation of a Draught horse. The illustration is by Eadweard Muybridge in 1897 from 'Animals in Motion' showing the hind-limbs bent to drawing a load. The text describes the movement of the horse.

Dates: 1870s-1930s