Muybridge was a pioneer of photographing motion. He used a bank of separate cameras to make split-second shots of animals and humans while they were moving. With this technology, he captured images of the separate stages of movement never seen before by the human eye. This Museum helped to fund Muybridge's ground-breaking series, Animal Locomotion, by agreeing to purchase a full set of prints before they were published. The glass plate here was used to produce the print.