Tattooed lady, the Glossary
Tattooed ladies were working class women who acquired tattoos and performed in circuses, sideshows, and dime show museums as means for earning a substantial living.[1]
Table of Contents
27 relations: American traditional, Artoria Gibbons, Betty Broadbent, Body suit (tattoo), Captivity narrative, Circus, Circus World Museum, Dime museum, Essentialism, Gender role, Lydia the Tattooed Lady, Manfred Kohrs, Martin Hildebrandt, Metanarrative, Milwaukee, Modern primitive, Olive Oatman, Otto Dix, Ringling Brothers Circus, Samuel O'Reilly, Santa Fe Trail, Sideshow, Sitting Bull, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film), The New York Times, Victorian era, Yavapai.
- Sideshow attractions
- Tattooing
American traditional
American traditional, Western traditional or simply traditional is a tattoo style featuring bold black outlines and a limited color palette, with common motifs influenced by sailor tattoos.
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Artoria Gibbons
Artoria Gibbons (also known by her stage name, Mrs. C.W. (Red) Gibbons) was an American tattooed lady.
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Betty Broadbent
Betty Broadbent (November 1, 1909 – March 28, 1983), also known as the “Tattooed Venus”, is regarded as the most photographed tattooed lady of the 20th century.
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Body suit (tattoo)
A body suit or full body suit is an extensive tattoo, usually of a similar pattern, style or theme that covers the entire torso or the entire body.
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Captivity narrative
Captivity narratives are usually stories of people captured by enemies whom they consider uncivilized, or whose beliefs and customs they oppose.
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Circus
A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists, and unicyclists as well as other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists.
Circus World Museum
The Circus World Museum is a museum complex in Baraboo, Wisconsin, devoted to circus-related history.
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Dime museum
Dime museums were institutions that were popular at the end of the 19th century in the United States.
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Essentialism
Essentialism is the view that objects have a set of attributes that are necessary to their identity.
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Gender role
A gender role, or sex role, is a set of socially accepted behaviors and attitudes deemed appropriate or desirable for individuals based on their sex.
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Lydia the Tattooed Lady
"Lydia, the Tattooed Lady" is a 1939 song written by Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen.
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Manfred Kohrs
Manfred Kohrs (born 24 January 1957) is a German tattooist and conceptual artist, who has been tattooing since 1974. Tattooed lady and Manfred Kohrs are tattooing.
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Martin Hildebrandt
Martin Hildebrandt (c. 1825–1890) was an early American tattoo artist, nicknamed "Old Martin".
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A metanarrative (also meta-narrative and grand narrative; métarécit or grand récit) is a narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience, or knowledge, which offers a society legitimation through the anticipated completion of a (as yet unrealized) master idea.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Milwaukee County.
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Modern primitive
Modern primitives or urban primitives are people in developed, or modern nations who engage in body modification rituals and practices inspired by the ceremonies, rites of passage, or bodily ornamentation in what they consider traditional cultures. Tattooed lady and modern primitive are tattooing.
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Olive Oatman
Olive Ann Oatman (September 7, 1837March 21, 1903) was a White American woman celebrated in her time for her slavery and later release by Native Americans in the Mojave Desert region when she was a teenager.
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Otto Dix
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969) was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war.
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Ringling Brothers Circus
Ringling Bros.
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Samuel O'Reilly
Samuel F. O’Reilly (May 1854 - 29 April 1909) was an American tattoo artist from New York, who patented the first electric tattoo machine on December 8, 1891.
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Santa Fe Trail
The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri, with Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Sideshow
In North America, a sideshow is an extra, secondary production associated with a circus, carnival, fair, or other such attraction.
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Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake; December 15, 1890) was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2011 mystery thriller film based on the 2005 novel by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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Yavapai
The Yavapai are a Native American tribe in Arizona.
See also
Sideshow attractions
- African dodger
- Alice Elizabeth Doherty
- Armless wonder
- Bearded lady
- Bearded women
- Bed of nails
- Bee bearding
- Cardiff Giant
- Elmer McCurdy
- Fiji mermaid
- Fire breathing (circus act)
- Fire eating
- Flea circus
- Hazel Farris
- Human blockhead
- Human dartboard
- Human zoo
- Human zoos
- Little Irvy
- Minnesota Iceman
- Pickled punks
- Professional regurgitation
- Sideshow alley
- Sword swallowing
- Tattooed lady
- Wall of death
- Water spouting
Tattooing
- Animal tattoo
- Anitta's anal tattoo
- Black-and-gray
- Cover-up tattoo
- Ephemeral (company)
- Flash (tattoo)
- Fukushi Masaichi
- History of tattooing
- Horst Streckenbach
- Human billboard
- Identification of inmates in Nazi concentration camps
- Lars Krutak
- Manfred Kohrs
- Mark of the Four Waves
- Microblading
- Modern primitive
- New York Tattoo Museum
- Ole Wittmann
- Permanent makeup
- Process of tattooing
- Protection papers
- Russian criminal tattoos
- Scarification
- Scarification in Africa
- Soundwave tattoos
- Sympathetic alphabet
- Tattoo
- Tattoo artist
- Tattoo convention
- Tattoo designs
- Tattoo ink
- Tattoo machine
- Tattoo removal
- Tattooed lady
- Trash polka
- UV tattoo
- Until I Find You
- Veiqia
- Violent Lips
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattooed_lady
Also known as Irene Woodward, Lillian Marco, Tattooed Ladies.