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Sepia (?) photograph in card frame: half figure of male with Native American female on his back. Front of card has the letter J with foliage decoration on a grey and white striped background. Inside card, ‘Jerome’ is printed below aperture for image
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
F2021.21.198
Acquisition
Purchase, 1/3/2021
Measurements
Length
(mm): 160
Width
(mm): 219
Techniques
sepia
Material
paper (photographic)
Location
In store
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