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This guide details the combined holdings of Eadweard Muybridge material held in Special Collections & University Archives, Stanford University Libraries.

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Photographic material

Eadweard Muybridge photographs (PC0006)

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, Native Americans, 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 StanfordMuseum.

Eadweard Muybridge photographs, 1870-1890 (MSS PHOTO 167)

39 prints in 10 folders.

1. Vertical steam pumps, stereo, no date (JL006)

2. 15 stereos from "Pacific Coast Series," including Pigeon Point, New Years Island, Pescadero's Pebble Beach, and Pescadero (M237).

3. 1 stereo San Francisco City Hall cornerstone laying, 1872. Also includes a stereo by Thomas Houseworth of White Sulphur Springs, undated.

4. 3 prints of the James M. Rogers residence, Watsonville, CA [1879].

5. 2 prints of San Francisco, ca. 1875.

6-10. 18 prints of a San Francisco Peninsula estate, undated. 

Yosemite, its wonders and its beauties : with information adapted to the wants of tourists about to visit the valley / by John S. Hittell ; illustrated with twenty photographic views taken by "Helios" and a map of the valley.
San Francisco : H.H. Bancroft & Co., 1868.
Special Collections » Rare Books Collection (non-circulating) » F868 .Y6 H6 1868 CB
Includes 20 photographs by Muybridge, mounted.
The Pacific coast of Central America and Mexico; the Isthmus of Panama; Guatemala; and the cultivation and shipment of coffee, illustrated by Muybridge.
San Francisco, 1876.
Special Collections » Rare Books Collection (non-circulating) » TR140 .M97 FS
144 photographs, mounted in album. 26 x 38 cm. There is also a second copy with 59 photographs.
Panorama of San Francisco from California-Street Hill, by Muybridge.
[San Francisco, 1878]
Special Collections » Rare Books Collection (non-circulating) » TR140 .M98 1878 FF BB
13 photos, mounted on one sheet of cloth to form one panoramic view. 69 x 585 cm. folded to 69 x 44 cm. Accompanied by flat box containing the following:
1) 8 x 10" negatives of plates 1-13
2) 2 sets of prints of plates 1-13
3) Partial set of prints of plates
4) Booklet published by Wells Fargo Bank in 1979 entitled San Francisco 1878 : portrait of the city by Eadweard Muybridge.
The attitudes of animals in motion: a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing various movements; executed at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879.
[San Francisco] 1881.
Special Collections » Rare Books Collection (non-circulating) » TR140 .M93 BB
170 pages with mounted photographs. 25 x 36 cm. The department has copy negatives for some photographs from this work; consult a staff member for more information.
Animal locomotion : an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements. 1872-1885 / by Eadweard Muybridge ; published under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania ; Plates: the plates printed by the Photogravure company of New York.
Philadelphia : [University of Pennsylvania], 1887.
Special Collections » Rare Books Collection (non-circulating) » TR140 .M92 FF BB
781 plates. 49 x 63 cm. The plates are numbered consecutively and supplied only with two title-pages (v. [1] and [16]) A prospectus and catalogue of plates was issued the same year and has been catalogued separately under call number TR140 .M91.

Plates in this copy are incomplete. A detailed list of holdings is available in the department. The department has copy negatives for some photographs from this work; consult a staff member for more information.
Descriptive zoopraxography; or, The science of animal locomotion made popular, by Eadwaerd Muybridge ... Published as a memento of a series of lectures given by the author under the auspices of the United States Government Board of education, at the World's Columbian Exposition, in Zoopraxographical hall, 1893.
[Philadelphia] University of Pennsylvania; [Chicago, The Lakeside press] 1893.
Special Collections » Rare Books Collection (non-circulating) » QP301 .M188
Published as a memento of a series of lectures given by the author under the auspices of the United States Government Board of education, at the World's Columbian Exposition, in Zoopraxographical hall, 1893.
Animals in motion : an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal progressive movements / by Eadweard Muybridge.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1899.
Special Collections » Rare Books Collection (non-circulating) » 591.47 .M993AM F
264 pages; 25 x 32 cm. Stanford copy has presentation inscription from the author to Leland Stanford Jr. University.
The human figure in motion; an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of muscular actions, by Eadweard Muybridge. Commenced 1872. Completed 1885.
London, Chapman & Hall, ld, 1901.
Special Collections » Rare Books Collection (non-circulating) » TR140 .M95 FS
280 pages, including plates. This copy is missing pages 91-150.

Manuscript material

Leland Stanford papers (SC0033B)

Includes correspondence about J.D.B. Stillman’s book The Horse in Motion and Muybridge’s copyright claim to the work.

Leland Stanford collection (SC0512)

Primary and secondary sources pertaining to the life of Leland Stanford and the history of StanfordUniversity's founding. Includes material on Muybridge’s work at Palo Alto Stock Farm and the invention of motion pictures.

David Starr Jordan papers (SC0058)

Papers of StanfordUniversity’s first president. Includes correspondence with Muybridge.

Research concerning Eadweard Muybridge (M0736)

Miles, a professor of experimental psychology at Stanford University, endeavored to memorialize Muybridge's work by establishing a permanent exhibit at the Stanford Museum and correspondingly hosting a 50th anniversary event. The collection includes correspondence about Muybridge; material about the Semi-Centennial Celebration and the invention of moving pictures; ephemera and published articles about Muybridge; and photographs and negatives, including those used by Miles in his articles and publications about Muybridge.

Reference works & reprints

Eadweard Muybridge in Guatemala, 1875 : the photographer as social recorder / photographs by Eadweard J. Muybridge ; text by E. Bradford Burns.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1986.
Art & Architecture Library » Stacks » F1464 .B94 1986
Photographs by Eadweard J. Muybridge ; text by E. Bradford Burns. Photographs are reprinted from The Pacific Coast of Central America and Mexico; the Isthmus of Panama; Guatemala; and the Cultivation and Shipment of Coffee; Illustrated by Muybridge (1876).
Eadweard Muybridge : the Kingston Museum bequest / editor Stephen Herbert ; contributors Marta Braun, Paul Hill, Anne McCormack.
[Hastings] : Projection Box, c2004.
SAL1&2 (on-campus shelving) » Stacks » TR849 .M87 E23 2004 F
Muybridge : man in motion / by Robert Bartlett Haas.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1976.
Special Collections » Reference (non-circulating) » TR849 .M87 H3
Eadweard Muybridge and the photographic panorama of San Francisco, 1850-1880 / David Harris, with Eric Sandweiss.
Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture = Centre canadien d'architecture, 1993.
Art & Architecture Library » Stacks » TR647 .M89 1993 F
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal from 31 Mar. to 25 July 1993. The exhibit was later circulated to the Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, in San Francisco (September 1 to October 24, 1993) and to the Musée Carnavalet, Paris.
Eadweard Muybridge: the father of the motion picture.
New York, Grossman [1975]
SAL1&2 (on-campus shelving) » Stacks » TR849.M87.H46
Eadweard Muybridge, the man who invented the moving picture.
[1st ed.] Boston, Little, Brown [1972]
Art & Architecture Library » Stacks » TR849.M87 M3
Muybridge's Complete human and animal locomotion : all 781 plates from the 1887 Animal locomotion / by Eadweard Muybridge ; introd. to the Dover edition by Anita Ventura Mozley.
New York : Dover Publications, c1979.
Art & Architecture Library » Stacks » QP301 .M82 1979 F V.1
Panoramic San Francisco, from California Street Hill, 1877.
San Francisco, T. C. Russell [19--?]
Special Collections » Rare Books Collection (non-circulating) » F869 .S3 M8
San Francisco 1878 : portrait of the city / by Eadweard Muybridge ; [researched and prepared by Robert S. McBain].
[San Francisco] : History Department, Wells Fargo Bank, c1979.
Special Collections » University Archives: request at Special Collections service desk » F869 .S3 M83 1979
Discusses the 75-foot enlargement of Muybridge's panoramic view of San Francisco, produced for the Wells Fargo Bank Penthouse from original photographic plates owned by Stanford University.
Time stands still : Muybridge and the instantaneous photography movement / Phillip Prodger ; with an essay by Tom Gunning.
[Stanford, Calif.] : Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Special Collections » University Archives: request at Special Collections service desk » TR849 .M87 P76 2003
Catalog of an exhibition at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts.
River of shadows : Eadweard Muybridge and the technological wild west / Rebecca Solnit.
New York : Viking, 2003.
SAL1&2 (on-campus shelving) » Stacks » TR849 .M87 S55 2003
Eadweard Muybridge; the Stanford years, 1872-1882.
[Stanford, Calif., 1972]
Special Collections » Rare Books Collection (non-circulating) » TR849 .M87 S7
Eadweard Muybridge / Philip Brookman with contributions by Marta Braun ... [et al.].
London : Tate Pub. ; Göttingen : Steidl, 2010.
Special Collections » University Archives reference (non-circulating) » TR849 .M87 B77 2010
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 10 April-18 July 2010; Tate Britain, London, 8 Sept. 2010-16 Jan. 2011; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 26 Feb.-7 June 2011.
Muybridge sequence / Rand Huebsch
[New York, N.Y.]: Parrhasia Press, 2007.
Special Collections » Gunst Collection (non-circulating) » (no call number)
Eadweard Muybridge--motion studies [electronic resource].
Santa Monica, Calif. : Voyager, c1990.
Green Library » Media & Microtext Center (Lower level)
One city/two visions : San Francisco panoramas, 1878 and 1990 / Eadweard Muybridge & Mark Klett ; with an introduction by Peter Bacon Hales and a note by Mark Klett.
San Francisco, CA : Bedford Arts, Publishers, c1990.
Green Library » Stacks » F869 .S343 M89 1990 F