Postcard
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- OBJECT TYPE
- photograph mount
- DATE
- 1957
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2004.1338.003
- MANUFACTURER
- Polaroid Corp.
- MODEL
- Polaroid Postcarder
- LOCATION
- United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 3
- Total Parts
- 22
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- cardboard
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 10.4 cm
- Width
- 7.9 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Printing
- Category
- Printed specimens
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Polaroid
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
A card with adhesive on one side and a preprinted postcard form on the other; a Polaroid photograph taken by the user affixed to the adhesive side, creating a picture postcard which can be written upon and mailed - Technical
-
The first Polaroid Land camera was introduced in 1948 and in the 1950's several more models were produced. Polaroid Postcarders were introduced around 1957, according to Time Magazine: 'Minute Postcards. Owners of Polaroid Land Cameras, which produce snapshots in one minute, can now turn the pictures into postcards by affixing them to Polaroid Postcarders. One side of a Postcarder has standard message and address sections, the other has a peel-off backing over an adhesive surface. Cost for a package of 25: 95¢.' [from 'New Ideas', Time Magazine, August 12, 1957] (Ref. 2) - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- black lettering on one side reads 'A Product of POLAROID CORPORATION/ Printed in U.S.A.' with instructions for use/ black lettering on other side reads 'Polaroid (R) Land Picture Post Card' and 'This picture was finished on-the-spot in just/ 60 seconds with a Polaroid Land Camera'
- Missing
- complete
- Finish
- white on one side, brown on other side with green border
- Decoration
- N/A
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Polaroid Corp., Postcard, after 1957, Artifact no. 2004.1338, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2004.1338.003/
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