Pic to make the OT's collective head explode: first known female tattoo artist

Iwhi

Here she is later in her life




Correction, this might actually be her daughter.

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Maud Wagner, the first known female tattooist in the US, 1911

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Another example of white privilege taking credit for something indigenous cultures had been doing for centuries

I can smell the Hepatitis from that picture

When I was a kid you had to pay a quarter to the see the “tatoo’ed lady “. She came to town in a tractor trailer. The back half had a 600 pound man. You could see both for 40 cents. It was a rolling freak show. Circa 1965 or so.

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Maud Wagner

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It's always the weird jewish chicks.

That's the wicked witch of the west.

She looks unhappy and like she does not shave her pits.

IWNHI.

Not for the above reasons and not because she is not good looking enough. But because she likely died in the 1950-60’s and I don’t have sex with corpses.