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October 18, 2006: Polaroid Archive Donated to Harvard

"These are among the 4,000 linear feet of company documents, test photos, film reels, and other memorabilia recently donated to Harvard Business School by the group that bought Polaroid last year. The collection was amassed over six decades by Land, the Cambridge scientist and inventor best known as the father of the instant camera."

"Land's collection is being catalogued by manuscript librarians in massive new research archives below the school's restored Baker Library. The boxes of papers, which would stretch three-quarters of a mile laid end to end, are the archives' largest single collection, occupying an eighth of its space. Harvard will open them to academic researchers and other scholars next year."

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