A pair of stereoviews highlighting some of the animals found at Woodward's Gardens in San Francisco, 1869. Both on matching yellow mounts and taken by Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), the English-born photographer whose stereoviews achieved mass popularity after Bradley & Rulofson sold them in San Francisco. He is additionally considered the father of the motion picture for inventing the zoopraxiscope. 

Woodward's Gardens was a combination amusement park, art gallery, aquarium, museum and zoo in San Francisco. Established in 1866 on Mission Street by eccentric hotelier Robert B. Woodward, The Gardens covered two city blocks in the Mission District for 25 years. Complete thematic groupings covering the park are very scarce.

These images are as follows: 

1. Woodward's Gardens, San Francisco. A group of women and children sit on a bench alongside a pond, where several long-necked birds stand perched. 

2. Royal Bengal Tiger at Woodward's Gardens. A tiger roars slightly to the right of the camera, stepping out of the foliage into main view. 

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