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This case illustrates the intriguing history and science of photographic processes, cameras, and the evolution of photography from an obscure activity of inventors to one everyone utilizes today. The display includes a 100-year span of camera types, including Daguerreotype-cameras, first used in 1839; Ambrotype-cameras, which were popular from the late 1850s-1880s; Tintype/Ferrotype-cameras; and a new camera showcased by George Eastman in 1888 that enabled almost anyone to take up photography with relative ease -- the Kodak camera.
The exhibit also highlights the advent of the commercial instant camera in 1947 by Edwin Land and his company, Polaroid Corporation, which allowed a person to view their photographs soon after taking a picture.
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