When did the Polaroid camera stop being made?

If conception is invention, then according to the Polaroid website, the Polaroid Land Camera was invented in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1944. Edwin Land was on vacation when his three year old daughter Jennifer asked him why she couldn't see a picture Land took of her right away. Land went for a solitary walk and by the time he returned he had all the central concepts for what became the Land Camera in his head. The folding camera Edwin Land invented produced black-and-white prints in about one minute from roll film inside the camera. Land patented his camera in 1946 (Patent Number 2435720).

It's a little difficult to determine precisely where the first Polaroids, or Land Cameras, were made. The original camera, the Model 95, first sold in 1948 for $89.75 in Boston, Massachusetts. According to the website The Land List (see Related Link below), it is possible (Land List makes no assertion of accuracy) that the earliest Model 95s were produced under contract for Polaroid by Samson United of Rochester, New York with a lens by Wollensak. There is a suggestion from a visitor to the site that some early Model 95's may have also been produced in a Timex plant in Atlanta, Georgia. Later, Polaroid took over production themselves, and Polaroid at the time was headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.