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 ...

From the beginning, Edwin H. Land and George Wheelwright had a knack for innovation. They didn’t just want to invent cool things; they wanted to invent and market products that filled a need or ...

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 ...

Polaroid is a non-entity these days, but instant photography lives on in the digital photos we produce at dazzling speeds. We’re addicted, and that’s what made Polaroid the hottest tech company in the ...

This month, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE introduces viewers to Edwin Land, the visionary scientist and inventor of the Polaroid camera. Because of his invention, people could snap a picture and see it nearly ...