By Pat Fish
The above photograph is from 1907, Gus & Maude Wagner (recognized within the caption as “spouse”) and their tattoo parlor and sideshow in Santa Barbara.
Does anybody acknowledge the shopfront?
Maud Stevens Wagner was a contortionist and aerialist, she met her husband Gus Wagner on the 1904 World’s Honest in St. Louis. He needed up to now her, she needed to discover ways to tattoo, a discount was struck and Gus taught her find out how to hand-poke. Maud Wagner turned the primary identified western feminine tattoo artist in the US.
Actually, she was the primary feminine tattooist in Santa Barbara, and the one one till I (Pat Fish) opened a studio in 1984 at 435 East Haley Avenue, and stays in enterprise now at 2007 State Avenue.
Maud Stevens Wagner, tattoo artist, circa 1907. (Picture: The Plaza Gallery, Los Angeles)
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