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Sallie Gardner au galop

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Sallie Gardner au galop — archival photograph
The Horse in Motion by Eadweard Muybridge . Noted photographer, Eadweard Muybridge was hired, in 1872, by Leland Stanford a railroad baron and future university founder, to find out if there was moment mid-stride where horses had all hooves off the ground. It took several years but Muybridge delivered having captured a horse, named "Sallie Gardner," owned by Stanford ; running at a 1:40 gait over

The year

1878
Photographer
Eadweard Muybridge
Date
1878
Licence
Public domain
Source
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Horse_in_Motion_high_res.jpg
Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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