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Instant Artifact: The File Box

By On 7 April 2013 · 3 Comments

Here’s one Polaroid product you couldn’t buy in a photo store: a little box made of maple, sized exactly to hold and sort SX-70 photos.

What’s special about this, you may ask? Well, it was not produced commercially. Someone (probably in the Polaroid shops) made up a few of them, especially for one […]

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The Osborn(e) Street Question

By On 17 June 2012 · 3 Comments

I’ve posted before about visiting the building that housed Edwin Land’s lab (not to mention Alexander Graham Bell’s before him, and Kaplan Furniture in between). It’s on a narrow alleylike side street in Cambridge, running just two blocks between Albany and Main Streets, that’s called … well, that’s the point of this post. Is […]

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Din 103

By On 7 May 2012 · 1 Comment

It’s Edwin Land’s 103rd birthday, and here he is, in a couple of Polaroid portraits. The distance shot is outside the Osborn Street laboratories in Cambridge; as for the closeup, I’m not sure who the other guy is, but I really hope he doesn’t have that tie anymore.

The dates are educated guesses. I put […]

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Instant Moment: Osborn Street

By On 6 February 2012 · 1 Comment

Polaroid got its start in a few places—briefly an apartment in New York, then a couple of buildings in Cambridge and Connecticut—but it really got rolling in a former furniture factory near the MIT campus. The building at 2 Osborn Street was a dilapidated old industrial brick thing back then—Edwin Land once called it “wretched”–but […]

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