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American Experience

The Women of Polaroid

Season 37 Episode 3 | 3m 08s

At a time when there were few jobs for women in technology, Edwin Land filled the ranks at Polaroid with recent graduates from Smith College, a small women’s liberal arts college in Massachusetts.

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