Nineteenth-Century Doctor's Tattoo Notebook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 105-02-02
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates
- [1890-189?]
Extent
2 folders (Quarter leather volume, lined. Photos and ephemera loosely laid in have been moved to a separate folder.)
Language of Materials
English
Source
- Lux Mentis (Seller, Organization)
- Title
- Nineteenth-Century Doctor's Tattoo Notebook
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Jordan Goffin
- Date
- January 2026
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Providence Public Library Repository
Contact:
150 Empire Street
Providence RI 02903 United States of America
401-455-8021
special_collections@provlib.org
150 Empire Street
Providence RI 02903 United States of America
401-455-8021
special_collections@provlib.org