Panorama of San Francisco

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Kingston Museum possesses one of only nine of these panoramas of the great city taken by Muybridge in April 1878.  Muybridge worked with a mammoth camera using 18x22 inch plates and the resulting work is both artistically and technically well defined.  It also provides a primary source of pictorial information about the city before the earthquake and fire of 1906, which destroyed many of the buildings on show in this panoramas.

Kingston Museum's San Francisco Panorama

	How Was It Taken? How and why was this photographic time-capsule taken?
	The Seventh Panel Changing shadows?  Kingston Museum's Panorama contains one panel taken some time after the others.
	The 'Spite Fence' One of the most interesting images from Muybridge's Panorama of the city is this view of the famous 'Spite Fence'