Object Details
- Polaroid Corporation
- Description (Brief)
- Polaroid Land Camera Model 95. First unit to come off the assembly line when the Polaroid Land camera began production in the fall of 1948. It is inscribed with the initials E. H. L. and presented to Edwin H. Land, inventor of the camera and president of Polaroid. The camera's name reflects its manufacturer's suggested retail price of $95. The lens is a fixed f/11, 135 mm model. Shutter has T and I modes. Metal and brown leather body with metal fixtures and leather bellows. Direct-vision view-finder with post on front top. Camera used Polaroid print paper to make near-instant 3 1/4" x 4 1/4" prints.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1948
- ID Number
- PG.007489
- accession number
- 256625
- catalog number
- 7489
- Object Name
- Camera
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- leather (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 9 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in x 2 in; 24.13 cm x 12.065 cm x 5.08 cm
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Photography
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1154069
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-eff3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
