Instant camera lore dates back to WWII. Here's how we got to the Polaroid Land Camera

There is still some fondness out there for the old-style cameras, and one that often evokes sighs of remembrance is the Polaroid Land Camera.
Harvard Business School

Exhibit at Harvard Business School's Baker Library Focuses On Polaroid Camera and Other Inventions of Edwin Land

BOSTON—In 1943, Edwin Land, who had first made his mark in 1933 with a patent for the development of an affordable light-polarizing material to eliminate glare from automobile headlights and the sun ...
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Polaroid introduces the instant camera, February 21, 1947

Polaroid founder Edwin Land first demonstrated the instant camera on February 21, 1947 at a meeting of the Optical Society of America in New York City. The Land camera, as it was originally known, ...
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Polaroid Land Camera Model 95

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Polaroid Land Camera Model 95. First ...
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The Women Who Made Polaroid Click

A Polaroid test sheet from 1946. Image courtesy MIT Museum. With the advent of instant photography, Polaroid revolutionized the industry in a flash. Never before the Model 95 camera debuted in 1948, ...