28/07/2020
Un peu d'histoire !
Here is a little feature about the New-York tattoo history -on ATC Tattoo - which is quite remarkable considering that the first tattoo studio in the States opened there thanks to Martin Hildebrandt around 1858. Everybody remembers too that Samuel O’Reilly was granted the first electric tattoo machine patent in 1891, when the city was still the biggest port in the world. In the 20th century, the history of tattooing has also known a significative period of prohibition (1961-1977), that makes it even more unique.
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I had the opportunity to chat with three people that are part of this history, past and present, first of them is the well-known tattoo academic Mike Mc Cabe who tells us how, before writing books, it was to tattoo during the prohibition.
http://www.atctattoo.com/
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