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and completed a brief training in accounting. She worked as a private tutor in Kassel for three years and then worked in the commercial sector for ten years. In 1909 she returned to
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England. From 1937 she turned her focus away from commercial photography to creating portraits and cityscapes, particularly of
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Seifert was largely inactive after 1945, and three books she had compiled were never published. She died on 23 June 1968 in
Dresden. A collection of her work is held by the
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