Research
Research at What Cheer House connects archival evidence, historical interpretation, and machine-assisted inquiry. This section gathers projects that investigate cultural materials, visual systems, and the changing forms through which knowledge is organized and made visible.
On View
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Muybridge, Sallie Gardner, and the Making of Motion Legible
A cabinet card and a newspaper account from 1878 reveal how Eadweard Muybridge’s Palo Alto experiment made motion legible through automated image capture.