Polaroid Land Camera first goes on sale.

Originally the Model-95 camera, it is sold for $89.75 at the Jordan Marsh department store on Washington Street. First demonstrated in New York City on February 21, 1947, the so-called “one-step photography system” can produce black-and-white photographs in 60 seconds. The idea for the camera came to Land in 1943 while on a vacation in New Mexico, when, after he took a picture of his three-year-old daughter, Jennifer, she asked, “Why can’t I see it now?” Land received a patent for the camera on February 10, 1948.