Polaroid  has donated an extensive historic collection of Polaroid products and prototype designs from its 73-year archive to the MIT Museum. The archive of Polaroid  artifacts contains some of the most fascinating inventions and innovations from the 20th century. Rare Polarized glasses dating from the 1939 World’s Fair, original newsprint sketches by Polaroid  founder Edwin H. Land, a historic bellows camera the size of a filing cabinet, as well as examples of Land-designed camera prototypes
, and SX-70 cameras that defined the instant photography era, are just some of the original items that the MIT Museum acquired.