Anna Atkins

 The first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images

                                               Anna Atkins (16 March 1799 – 9 June 1871) was an English botanist and photographer. She is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images. Some sources claim that she was the first woman to create a photograph.

A cyanotype photogram made by
Atkins which was part of her 1843 book,
Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions

Cyanotype photogram of Wood Horsetail
 from the 1853 bookCyanotypes of British and Foreign
 Ferns by Atkins and Dixon