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Anna Atkins

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Profession
Photographer
Died
Jun 9, 1871
Zodiac
Pisces
Born in
England
About
Remembered for her pioneering botanical and photographic publication Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, she is also notable for her collaborations with Anne Dixon on several photographic books about ferns.
Family
The daughter of Anne Children and prominent natural scientist John George Children, she spent her youth in Kent, England. She married John Pelly Atkins in the mid 1820s.

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