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Pics. Meet maud wagner, america's first female tattoo artist. Unknown photographer gus and maude nd.
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Jump to navigation jump to search. Most photographs have the subjects yielding to the lens. We found one dictionary with english definitions that includes the word maud wagner:
Maud stevens was a young aerialist and contortionist who worked the circus and state fair circuit at the dawn of the 20th century.
Here's the thing about maud wagner: Gus taught her to tattoo (in trade for a date, they say) and she was also an aerialist and contortionist in a circus. Stevens and wagner eventually married, and her work became popular. Born maud stevens in 1877, the lyon county, kansas native began her career in the arts as a performer, working as an aerialist, acrobat.
