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Maud Wagner
American circus performer
Maud Wagner | |
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Maud Wagner in c. 1907 | |
| Born | Maud Stevens (1877-02-12)February 12, 1877 Emporia, Kansas, U.S. |
| Died | January 30, 1961(1961-01-30) (aged 83) Lawton, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Known for | First female tattoo artist in the United States |
| Spouse | Gus Wagner |
| Children | 2 |
Maud Stevens Wagner (née Stevens; February 12, 1877 – January 30, 1961) was an American circus performer.
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She was the first known female tattoo artist in the United 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 tattoo artist who described himself as "the most artistically marked up man in America" while traveling with circuses and sideshows—at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (World's Fair) in 1904, where she was working as an aerialist.