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Object Timeline

1965	Work on this object began.
1999	We acquired this object. We photographed this object.
2012	We photographed this object.
2013	This was an Object of the Day.
2015	We photographed this object.
2024	You found it!

Swinger Model 20 Camera

This is a camera. It was designed by Henry Dreyfuss and James M. Conner and manufactured by Polaroid Corporation. It is dated 1965 and we acquired it in 1999. Its medium is plastic, metalc. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled The Swinger.

This object was donated by Neil Sellin. It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Neil Sellin.

An instant camera stands opened from its collapsible form. Opened, it is triangular and tent-shaped, brown leather surface, expanding black leather sides to open the body and the viewfinder, with chrome silver frame and front plate with circular lens, circular flash, red, circular shutter button and adjustable exposure ring and focus ring at the top. Because of its collapsible shape, while sitting the front lens plate is pointed downward, and directly underneath it is a supported folding wall that says Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera. At the top of the triangular shape, the viewfinder extends diagonally upward on top of the tent, creating its own tent-like appendage of its own.

SX-70 Camera And Case
polysulfone plastic with a layer of copper-nickel-chromium alloy, applied....
Museum purchase through gift of Neil Sellin.
1999-2-2-a,b

PillCam SB 3
led light source, lens, battery, antenna, transmitter, imager.
Courtesy of Given Imaging, a Covidien Company.
s-e-1594

Telephone, Princess
thermoplastic case, steel base, electronic components .
Anonymous lender.
15.2013.8

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Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 12.4 x 15 x 13cm (4 7/8 x 5 7/8 x 5 1/8in.)

Cite this object as

Swinger Model 20 Camera; Designed by Henry Dreyfuss (American, 1904–1972), James M. Conner (American, b. 1922); Manufactured by Polaroid Corporation (United States); USA; plastic, metalc; H x W x D: 12.4 x 15 x 13cm (4 7/8 x 5 7/8 x 5 1/8in.); Museum purchase through gift of Neil Sellin; 1999-2-4

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2DFkx/
Accession Number 1999-2-4
Object ID 18667969