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Моменм (Momenm) camera with case
Date: 1953-1954
Inventory Number: 2004-1-0471
Classification: Camera
Subject:
User: Rowland Institute (founded 1980)
User: Edwin H. Land (1909 - 1991)
Cultural Region:
Place of Origin:
Dimensions:
camera, closed: 13.5 × 24.2 × 8 cm (5 5/16 × 9 1/2 × 3 1/8 in.)
case: 26.8 × 14.5 × 10 cm (10 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 3 15/16 in.)
Accessories: with case, instruction manual, certificates, letter to Dr. Land
Description:
New, never used Russian camera. In leather case with strap, key attached on a string. No model number. Paper-clipped papers in bottom of case:
1) Typed letter to Dr. Edwin Land from Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt, 2500 Que Street, NW, Washington, DC, communicating that camera is Russian copy of Land Polaroid. Addressed "Dear Din" and signed "Best regards, Corny." Dated February 12, 1962
2) Russian instruction manual for camera, 1954.
3) a Russian receipt
4) a Russian certificate with the serial number, dated 1953.
5) what might be a Russian warranty statement.
Produced by the factory “Lomo” from 1952 to 1954. Only 9,000 copies were made.
Bits of straw in the bottom of the case.
1) Typed letter to Dr. Edwin Land from Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt, 2500 Que Street, NW, Washington, DC, communicating that camera is Russian copy of Land Polaroid. Addressed "Dear Din" and signed "Best regards, Corny." Dated February 12, 1962
2) Russian instruction manual for camera, 1954.
3) a Russian receipt
4) a Russian certificate with the serial number, dated 1953.
5) what might be a Russian warranty statement.
Produced by the factory “Lomo” from 1952 to 1954. Only 9,000 copies were made.
Bits of straw in the bottom of the case.
Signedon camera front: Моменм
Historical AttributesThis camera and related equipment belonged to and was used by. Edwin H. Land.
Curatorial RemarksRowland Institute - Case 2, shelf A, left (#16)
ProvenanceEdwin H. Land, Rowland Institute, Cambridge, MA; gift to CHSI by the Edwin H. Land Family, 2004.