Images from the historical collections of major scientific institutions, historians, palaeontologists and a comprehensive archive of portraits throughout the ages.
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Historic adverts promoting a range of products from radium-based facial cream and an anti-obesity drug to healing fruit salt and the first kitchen computer.
Eadweard Muybridge (1830 - 1904) was a pioneer photographer who changed the history of the moving image with the use of multiple cameras. Muybridge's experiments proved for the first time that a galloping horse lifted all four hooves off the ground.