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The enduring beauty of the Prussian Blue. Invented by Sir John Herschel and famously utilized by Anna Atkins for her botanical studies, this iron-based process is celebrated for its distinctive hue and its role as the original "blueprint."

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1Improving content on photographic techniques
Introduction
2Cyanotypes
Examples
3Cyanotypes: Examples
4Cyanotypes: Portraits
5Cyanotypes: Trick photography
6Cyanotypes: Fabric
7Cyanotypes: Landscapes
8Cyanotypes: Objects
9Cyanotypes: Industrial
10Cyanotypes: Scientific
11Stereo cyanotypes
12Cyanotypes: Postcards
13Cyanotype banknotes and postage stamps issued during the Siege of Mafeking during the Boer War
14Cyanotypes and Pictorialism
15Contemporary cyanotypes
Permanence
16Permanence of cyanotypes
Photographers
17Anna Atkins: Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype impressions (1843-1854)
18Anna Atkins: Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Flowering Plants and Ferns (ca. 1854)
19Herbert Boucher Dobbie: New Zealand Ferns. 148 Varieties (1880)
20Bertha Jaques: Cyanotypes of plants
21Charles-Albert Arnoux Bertall: Ethnological studies
22Arthur Wesler Dow: Landscapes
23Henry P. Bosse: Views on the Mississippi River
24Georges Poulet: Aurora Argentina (1890s)
25Gold mine claim of Ralph Ira Murphy on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska (1899)
26Francis Benjamin Johnston: Cyanotypes
27Charles F. Lummis: Native Americans
28Eadweard Muybridge: Cyanotypes
Albums
29Album of cyanotypes of Florence, Italy (1880s or later)

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