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Cyanotypes were invented in 1842 by astronomer John Herschel as a way to copy his notes. The cyanotypes here are attributed to Anna Atkins, who was trained as a botanist and used this method of photography to record plant specimens—producing the first illustrated books using cyanotypes. Atkins is sometimes considered to be the first female photographer!

Guide to Mr. Worthington Smith’s drawings of field and cultivated mushrooms and poisonous or worthless fungi often mistaken for mushrooms.

By British Museum (Natural History). Department of Botany. 

Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917

Publication info London :Printed by order of the Trustees,1910.

Contributing Library: University Library, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

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Mixed Media on Paper

24 x 32 cm