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Instant: The Story of Polaroid by Christopher Bonanos

192 pages (hardcover), ©2012,  $25.00, (limited copies)

Instant is a book about a very unusual company. In the 1960s and 1970s, Polaroid was what Apple is today: the coolest technology company on earth, the one with irresistible products, the one whose stock kept climbing way past the point of logic. In its heyday, Polaroid was an absolute innovation machine—a scientific think tank that periodically kicked out a fantastically profitable, covetable product. In fact, the late Steve Jobs expressly said that he modeled his company to a great extent after Polaroid. Read more.

Self Guided Walking Tour

Enjoy three self guided walking tours of Cambridge: Utterly Harvard Square, Revolutionary Cambridge, and Historic Tory Row. The Utterly Harvard Square tour is a light hearted look at some of the Squares iconic locations and quirky treasures. The Revolutionary Cambridge tour explores the city’s role on the cutting edge of American society, both at the end of the 18th century and throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Finally, the largest tour is of the Historic Tory Row, this includes the seven Tory Row mansions but also has stops for many of the grand homes along Brattle Street and on some of the neighboring streets.

Hands on the Freedom Plow

Personal Accounts by women in the SNCC, 616 pages (hardcover), ©2010, $34.99

Proceeds of this book go to the Cambridge African American Heritage Alliance.

In Hands on the Freedom Plow, fifty-two women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina--share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement. Read more.

I Remember by Marian Cannon Schlesinger

228 pages (hardcover), ©2012,  $25.00, Autographed (limited copies)

While luminaries from her father the physiologist Walter B. Cannon and the Kennedys to Adlai Stevenson and the Galbraiths have been influential forces in Marian Schlesinger's very full life, I Remember is less an account of her celebrated family and friends than it is a refreshing, sometimes salty, always compelling account of a richly independent life, much of it focused on her art. Read more.

Cambridge History Publications

Society publications are available for purchase at the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House. If ordering online, by phone, or by e-mail, postage charges will be added to the total fee. You can order any of the following books through PayPal below, complete the order form and return it with a check, call the Historical Society office at 617 547-4252 or send an e-mail to: info@cambridgehistory.org.

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Cambridge Historical Society Gifts

CHS Mug - $10.00 each

CHS Water Bottle $5.00 each