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Preferred Citation
Digital Representations Available
Related Collections
Materials Cataloged Separately
Acquisition Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Note
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Lone Mountain College collection of stereographs and other photographs by Eadweard Muybridge
Creator:
Eadweard Muybridge
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1971.055
Physical Description:
1800 photographs
(approximately) : 6 albums (chiefly half stereographs), stereographs on card mounts, and 39 oversize prints. 1727 digital
objects
Date (inclusive): 1867-1880, bulk 1868-1875
Abstract: The Muybridge Lone Mountain Collection of photographs consists of 1700 stereographs, 6 albums and 39 individual photographs
by Eadweard Muybridge, chiefly taken during the years 1867 to 1875.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Access
Originals restricted. Viewing prints are available under the call number BANC PIC 1971.055--PIC. Individual prints, original
stereographs and albums may be viewed only with the permission of the appropriate curator.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Lone Mountain College Collection of Stereographs and Other Photographs by Eadweard Muybridge, BANC
PIC 1971.055, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Digital Representations Available
Digital representations of selected original pictorial materials are available in the list of materials below. Digital image
files were prepared from selected Library originals by the Library Photographic Service. Library originals were copied onto
35mm color transparency film; the film was scanned and transferred to Kodak Photo CD (by Custom Process); and the Photo CD
files were color-corrected and saved in JFIF (JPEG) format for use as viewing files. Selected items were digitized or re-digitized
at a later date.
Related Collections
The Bancroft Library has a large collection of photographs by Muybridge; see the Guide to Pictorial Collections on Bancroft
Reference shelves for more listings. See also:
Catalogue of Photographic Views Illustrating the Yosemite, Mammoth Trees, Geyser Springs, and Other Remarkable and Interesting
Scenery of the Far West, by Muybridge
, published by Bradley and Rulofson in 1873.
Materials Cataloged Separately
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 71/189c:
Title: Eadweard Muybridge Papers: additions, 1818-1839.
Removed from photographic collection.
Identifier/Call Number: xF870.P5M82 1893:
Title: Descriptive Zoopraxography; or, the Science of Animal Locomotion Made Popular
Identifier/Call Number: xffF870.P5M75:
Title: Animal Locomotion: an Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements, 1872-1885
Identifier/Call Number: xfF870.P5M76 1899:
Title: Animals in Motion ; an Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Progressive Movements. Commenced
1872, completed 1885.
Acquisition Information
The bulk of the Eadweard Muybridge Photographic Collection was part of the Monsignor Joseph M. Gleason Library of the San
Francisco College for Women (Lone Mountain College). This Collection was purchased by The Bancroft Library in March of 1971.
The Bancroft Library combined other material with the Lone Mountain acquisition, including individual stereograph cards from
various sources and an album of Woodward's Gardens views formerly belonging to the Robert B. Woodward family, received via
his grandson Henry C. (Harry) Melone.
Biography
Edward James Muggeridge was born on April 9, 1830 in Kingston-on-Thames, England. He was the second of four sons born to John
Muggeridge and Susannah Smith Muggeridge. John Muggeridge was a grain, coal and timber merchant and Susannah Smith Muggeridge
came from a prosperous family engaged in the business of carrying by barge. At the age of 22 Edward decided to go to America
and he changed his name to Eadweard Muygridge. He took the spelling of his first name from the "Coronation Stone," which had
been discovered in Kingston in 1850. Seven Saxon kings had been crowned upon this stone and two kings named Eadweard appeared
on its plinth. As for the spelling of his last name, the "muy" may have been added to reflect some Spanish ancestry, and "gridge"
was later changed to "bridge."
Upon his arrival in New York, Muybridge secured employment as a commission merchant for the London Printing and Publishing
Company. One of his first friends in the U.S. was daguerreotypist Silas T. Selleck, who sparked Eadweard's interest in photography.
When Selleck went West and established a successful photography studio, Muybridge soon followed. In 1855 he settled in San
Francisco, where he opened a bookstore at 113 Montgomery Street. In his free time Muybridge explored California; he was so
overwhelmed by the beauty of the state that he began to think about photographing landscapes. Muybridge was aware of the potential
of new photographic markets in America and he considered the possibility of photography as a second career. In 1860 he returned
to England where he spent several years regaining his health (he was injured in a stage coach accident during the trip from
SF to NY) and studying photography more seriously. Around 1866 he returned to America, altering his surname from Muygridge
to Muybridge. When he arrived in San Francisco he joined Silas Selleck in the photography business. The following year Muybridge
took his "Flying Studio" to Yosemite and made numerous photographs which were presented in 1868 under the pseudonym "Helios."
Over the next couple of years he made photographs of the San Francisco Bay Area, Alaska, and the Pacific Coast.
In the Spring of 1871 Muybridge married Flora Shallcross Stone. A year later he became acquainted with the Leland Stanford
family and this marked the beginning of his motion photography. Over the next couple of years, in addition to his motion studies,
he photographed the Modoc Indians and U.S. soldiers in Northern California, Central Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad.
In February of 1875, after being acquitted for the murder of his wife's lover, Muybridge went south to photograph Panama and
Central America. He returned to San Francisco in November upon hearing of his wife's death. The rest of his career was spent
primarily on the motion studies, first at Stanford University and later at the University of Pennsylvania. Eadweard Muybridge
died May 8, 1904 at 2 Liverpool Road, Kingston-on-Thames.
(Chief source: Haas, Robert Bartlett. Muybridge: Man in Motion. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.)
Scope and Content
The Muybridge Lone Mountain Collection of photographs consists of 1700 stereographs, 6 albums and 39 individual photographs
chiefly taken during the years 1867 to 1875. Most of the albums contain single stereo size (half stereograph) images arranged
in Muybridge's number order and are marked within the negative with his "Helios" trade name. These albums may represent his
own record of his work, and may have served as sample albums for his studio. He spent most of his time from 1867 to 1873 photographing
California, Alaska and the Pacific Coast; this work is documented in
Catalogue of Photographic Views Illustrating the Yosemite, Mammoth Trees, Geyser Springs, and Other Remarkable and Interesting
Scenery of the Far West, by Muybridge
, published by Bradley and Rulofson in 1873. The greatest number of these images are in stereographic form, intended for mounting
and sale on cards, but some were made in larger sizes for framing or albums. Photographs 1-278 do not appear in the
Catalogue.
Subjects covered in this collection include: Alaska (1868), Big Trees (Calaveras and Mariposa Groves), British Columbia, Buena
Vista Winery, Sonoma Co., Calistoga, Chinese, the Earthquake of 1868, Farralon Islands, The Geysers, Indians of Yosemite,
Light Houses, Marin County, Missions, the Modoc War, Panama and Central America (1875), Railroads, San Francisco and The Bay
Area, Woodward's Gardens, and Yosemite Park.
Note
Former accession number: 1905.16892. Some copy negatives are available under this number.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Central Pacific Railroad Company -- Pictorial works.
Farallon Islands (Calif.) -- Pictorial works.
Guatemala -- Pictorial works.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Pictorial works.
Modoc Indians -- Wars, 1873 -- Photographs.
Panama -- Pictorial works.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Pictorial works.
Spanish mission buildings -- California -- Photographs.
Vancouver Island (B.C.) -- Pictorial works.
Woodward's Gardens (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works.
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- Pictorial works.
Photograph albums.
Stereographs.
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge
Melone, Henry C. Associated name CU-BANC
Bradley & Rulofson.
California Heritage Project. CU-BANC
Lone Mountain College (San Francisco, Calif.). Library. Associated name CU-BANC
Online Archive of California.