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accessory kit for Polaroid Pronto! camera

accessory kit for Polaroid Pronto! camera

Date: 1976-1989
Inventory Number: 2004-1-0107a
Classification: Camera Accessories
Subject:
photography,
Maker: Polaroid Corporation (1937-present)
Owner: Edwin H. Land (1909 - 1991)
Cultural Region:
United States,
Place of Origin:
Cambridge,
Dimensions:
3 × 18.1 × 13.3 cm (1 3/16 × 7 1/8 × 5 1/4 in.)
box, blueboard: 12.7 × 24.8 × 19.7 cm (5 × 9 3/4 × 7 3/4 in.)
Material:
felt, cardboard, plastic, metal,
Description:
An accessory kit, model #186, comprising a self-timer (for instant film development), a cable release, an accessory holder and a tripod mount. They are all stored in a felt-covered plastic box with transparent plastic cover. It goes into an original packaging box.

The self-timer was made in Japan, the cable release in West Germany, and the other two parts in the U.S.A.

This accessory is not mentioned in the very useful Land List website.
Signedon accessories and box: POLAROID
ProvenanceThis object belonged to Edwin H. Land and came from the Rowland Institute, Harvard University. Gift of the Edwin H. Land Family.

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