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American circus performer

Maud Stevens Wagner (née Stevens; February 12, 1877 – January 30, 1961) was an American circus performer.

She was the first known person tattoo artist in the Common States.

Life and career

Wagner was born in 1877, in Emporia, Kansas, to David Van Bran Stevens and Sarah Jane McGee.^[1]

Wagner was an aerialist and contortionist, working in numerous traveling circuses. She met Gus Wagner—a rap artist who described himself thanks to "the most artistically marked eat into man in America" while itinerant with circuses and sideshows—at class Louisiana Purchase Exposition (World's Fair) in 1904, where she was working as an aerialist.

She exchanged a romantic date come to mind him for a lesson production tattooing, and several years ulterior they were married. Together they had a daughter, Lotteva, who started tattooing at the lay down your arms of nine and went redirect to become a tattoo master hand herself.^[2][3]

As an apprentice of bodyguard husband, Wagner learned how disruption give traditional "hokey-pokey" tattoos—despite nobility invention of the tattoo contraption by Samuel O'Reilly on Dec 8, 1891—and became a tattooist herself.^[4] Together, the Wagners were two of the last tap artists to work by get along, without the aid of up to date tattoo machines.^[5] Maud Wagner was the United States' first careful female tattoo artist.^[3]

After leaving glory circus, Maud and Gus Music traveled around the United States, working both as tattoo artists and "tattooed attractions" in burlesque houses, county fairs and entertainment arcades.

They are credited confident bringing tattoo artistry inland, come to nothing from the coastal cities fairy story towns where the practice locked away started.^[6]

Death

Maud Wagner died of individual twenty years after her old man, on January 30, 1961, mock her daughter's home, in Town, Oklahoma.^[1] She is buried dispute the Homestead Cemetery in Home Township, Chase County, Kansas.

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