giclee print: 1957 vintage joe mabel darpel tattoo photo flash tattooing 18x24

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giclee print: 1957 vintage joe mabel darpel tattoo photo flash tattooing 18x24
incredible and amazing photo of the inside of the darpels tattoo shop in kansas.  this picture was taken around 1957 as they are tattooing soldiers most likely leaving for korea to fight in the war.  haunting to think about some of them probably returning to kansas in a pine box.  or not at all.
reproduction "giclèe" fine art archival print, 18x24 inches, high resolution print scanned directly from super rare and original tattoo shop photo by joe/mabel darpel around 1957.
The fine art giclee print was professionally printed, scanned and color and tone matched to the original photo and produced on archival matte, thick 100 weight paper using only fade-resistant, archival, pigment-based inks. this print is the closest to the original one as could be possibly made.
see photos as they are part of description. 1st photo in listing is screen shot and next one is actual photo of the print with pen present to show the clarity.
Joe Darpel, 1901-1968, was a lifelong carnival/circus sideshow manager, tattooed and tattooed man. He had a body suit of beautiful tattoos that were put on by Bert Grimm or William Grimshaw or both (and probably others) sometime in the late 1910s.
Around that same time he began tattooing on sideshows and carnivals. It was at one of William Kennedy's sideshows where Joe met Mabel Kennedy (William's daughter) where Joe was sideshow manager. Mabel was quite an accomplished sideshow performer as psychic, knife thrower and horse rider and later an accomplished tattooer herself.
Later they were married in a carnival and they became tattooing partners, traveling with sideshows and operating tattoo shops in Virginia, Kansas and finally in Texas for many years. Joe and Mabel both painted beautiful tattoo flash that is very rare, loved and sought after by serious collectors.
the original photo came from mabel darpel's photo album.   the last photo on the listing os mabel darpel circa 1930s.  it is not included in the sale but just to add historical context to the tattoo shop photo.
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note:  have lots of tattoo items which are priced to sell.  every day i slowly revise prices, decreasing them by a dollar or 2, each day.  also, typically i add in a freebie item with your purchase as a thank you.  :)
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