Honors
- 1935 Hood Medal of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
- 1938 Elliott Cresson Medal, Franklin Institute of Philadelphia
- 1956 Howard N. Potts Medal
- 1963 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award given to a U.S. citizen, for his work in optics.
- 1965 IRI Medal from the Industrial Research Institute
- 1967 Frederic Ives Medal by the Optical Society of America.
- 1967 National Medal of Science
- 1974 Vermilye Medal
- 1977 inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
- 1988 National Medal of Technology for "the invention, development and marketing of instant photography".
- Although Land never received a formal degree, he received honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Willams College, Tufts College, Washington University, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, University of Massachusetts, Brandeis University and many others.
- He held 535 patents, compared with Thomas Edison's 1,097 American patents.
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