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Flash from the Bowery: Classic American Tattoos, 1900-1950 (An Archive of 900+ Vintage Flash Art Pieces from the Golden Age - Nautical Themes, Asian Imagery, Flowers, Boxers, Circus Characters, & More)

By Cliff White
$99.99
By Cliff White
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The only known tattoo art that has survived from The Black Eye Barbershop in New York, where Samuel J. O'Reilley's modern-day electric tattoo machine was born and patented.

Between these pages are images of the original acetate rubbings from Charlie Wagner's turn of the 20th century tattoo shop, The Black Eye Barbershop, in the Bowery at Chatham Square in New York. The imagery of this classic flash preserves the origins of American tattoos—when tattoo art was transferred to the client from...