064. Tattoo History
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Ace Tattoo Studio Collection
The spiral-bound notebook is part sketchbook and part journal, with drawings as well as notes on magic and astrology, drafts of letters, and notes. Two photo albums contain approximately 268 color 4"x6" photos of tattoos done by the shop. Approximately 600 ndividual sheets of flash in three-ring binder sleeves were removed from binders and foldered during processing.
Fourth World Convention of Tattoo Artists and Fans Collection
The collection is comprised of twenty-nine photographs of convention attendees, one convention program, and two newspaper clippings.
Alfred Gagnon Album and Photographs
General Tattoo Books
Correspondence and Artwork of an Incarcerated Tattoo Artist
The collection comprises 19 letters in 22 mailing envelopes. Included in the correspondence is poetry and artwork by the author, a tattoo artist. Many of the envelopes are decorated as well.
Nineteenth-Century Doctor's Tattoo Notebook
The notebook contains approximately 22 pages of handwritten entries, presumably by a medical professional, many annotating photographs of tattooed bodies. Laid in were 10 additional photographic reproductions, one letter, one reproduction of a written text, and a blank patient record slip from the Deconesses' Institution and Hospital, Tottenham.
Eddie Poferl Tattoo Collection
The collection includes the tattoo tools, records and tattoo designs related to Poferl’s work as an early 20th century American tattooer. Included are original designs and illustrations by Poferl, tattoo equipment and ephemera especially related to his collegial relationship with contemporary tattooer Percy Waters.
Tattoo Ephemera Collection
Collection of Tattoo Flash and Artwork
The Tattoo Flash and Artwork Collection contains sheets of tattoo flash as well as artwork created for the purposes of display within tattoo studios in order to give customers ideas for potential tattoos as well as to demonstrate the artistic style and talents of the tattoo artist.