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Newspaper: ‘Weekly Overseas Mail’ Number 2445: London, October 20th 1951. Photograph of Jessie Knight with her back tattoo on back page
One of a collection of items formerly belonging to tattoo artist Jessie Knight
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
F2021.21.390
Measurements
Length
(mm): 419
Width
(mm): 388
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