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Dark glass photographic plates arranged in a grid on an orange-red board, framed in gray, with a color scale at the right edge.

Muybridge Animal Locomotion Glass Plate Positive

A grid of dark glass photographic plates set in a rectangular window cut into an orange-red backing board, with a gray mount and color calibration strip at right. Faint pale marks suggest images on the glass, but the figures are hard to read.

Artist
Muybridge
Date
Medium
glass (overall material) silver gel (overall material)
Source
Smithsonian (National Museum of American History)
Size
4000 × 2660 px
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Public domain · Smithsonian (National Museum of American History) releases this image under CC0 (undated).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History