Object Details
- Description
- Angular plastic body with a triangular hinged bellows and lens housing rising from flat rectangular base, and surmounted by an angled view flash and focus unit; tops of view finder and bellows housing covered in black leather. Recessed circular lens, shutter button, and other controls are at the front of housing. Base opens at front to accept film casette. When closed the camera takes a flat rectangular form; tops of view finder and housing covered in black leather.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Manufacturer
- Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, founded 1937
- Date
- 1982–1987
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Family of Phil Patton
- Medium
- plastic, metal, leather
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (closed): 3.2 × 24.8 × 10.5 cm (1 1/4 × 9 3/4 × 4 1/8 in.)
- Type
- appliances & tools
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- camera
- Type
- camera
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