San Francisco Panorama, 1878

This morning, I've been looking at an interesting history of animation timeline, and came across Eadweard Muybridge, inventor of the zoopraxiscope . While looking for more information about this photographer, inventor, and strangest speller of the name "Edward" I've ever seen, I discovered that Muybridge took a panoramic photograph of San Francisco (atop a mansion in Nob Hill) -- click the thumbnail above to see what San Francisco looked like in 1878...

Tags: history of animation | historic photographs