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  "textContent": "\n\nEvery architect knows what a blueprint is. Fewer know the process behind it — cyanotype printing — was first used not for buildings but for algae.\n\nIn 1843, English botanist Anna Atkins began producing Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, now considered the first book illustrated entirely with photographs. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Anna Atkins' blue algae and the dawn of photography appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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