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Photograph (print)
Colour photograph of Jessie Knight's friend Winnie Ayres
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
F2021.21.704
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Ayres, Winnie
Association Type: Subject
Associated Person/Body: Knight, Jessie
Association Type: Owner
Creation/Production
Role: Ffotograffydd | photographer
Acquisition
Purchase, 1/3/2021
Techniques
Colour (photograph)
Material
Paper (photographic)
Location
In store
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