The Story of Edwin Land

It’s a long-term exhibit on instant photography, and more.

The Baker Library has mounted a show chronicling the history of the Polaroid Corp. and the career of its avant-garde founder, Edwin H. Land.

Thanks to Polaroid donating its archives to the library in 2006, a collection of 1.5 million items stretching over 4,000 linear feet is at the fingertips of students seeking to learn from and be inspired by Land’s legacy. The archives made possible the exhibit, catalog, and research website for “At the Intersection of Science and Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation,” said Laura Linard, director of special collections at Harvard Business School’s Baker Library.

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