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Cutting
Cutting from German newspaper with photograph and text. May have been photographed and printed out on card. Reverse blank with post card details.
Jessie Knight was the first prominent female tattooist in the UK. She took over her father's tattoo shop in Barry aged 18 in 1927 and went on to prominence whilst working in Chatham, Portsmouth and Aldershot. She returned to Barry in 1968, and continued to work there as a tattoo artist into the 1980s.
Collection Area
Social & Cultural History
Item Number
F2021.21.665
Acquisition
Purchase, 1/3/2021
Measurements
Length
(mm): 140
Width
(mm): 90
Techniques
printing
Material
paper
ink
Location
In store
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