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Black and white photograph mounted on card: male / female couple arm in arm in the back of a car. Glue marks on the front and tears down the centre.
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
F2021.21.475
Acquisition
Purchase, 1/3/2021
Measurements
Length
(mm): 160
Width
(mm): 214
Techniques
black and white (photograph)
Material
paper (photographic)
card
Location
In store
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