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Sepia photograph, very faded and stuck onto card. Shows male and female couple in a garden: male standing, female sitting.
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Replaced in brown envelope (labelled and wrapped).
On reverse are messages: - “For Jessie from Elsie 28/2/41”. - “To Lemmy: 13/4/48”. - ‘William Lempriere Knight’ - ‘Elizabeth Ann Lempriere Knight Poet’.
Replaced in brown envelope (labelled and wrapped).
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
F2021.21.664
Acquisition
Purchase, 1/3/2021
Measurements
Length
(mm): 97
Width
(mm): 60
Techniques
black and white (photograph)
Material
paper (photographic)
Location
In store
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