Barnum & Bunnell’s Tattooed Humbugs: Manifesting a Tattoo Trade Researched & Written by Carmen Nyssen The tattoo trade in America, as we know it today, resides with a diversity of talented tattoo artists and a broad range of customers who […]
Wortham’s Shows Web of Tattooed Attractions By Carmen Nyssen During the 1910s and early 1920s, Clarence Augustin Wortham’s “wonderful ability and tireless efforts” took him to the top of the carnival circuit, earning him a multi-show enterprise, complete with a […]
Al G. Barnes Tattooed Men: Frank Martin & Bert Price Written & Researched by Carmen Nyssen Circus biographer Dave Robeson asserted that “No half measures ever satisfied…” the great showman, Al G. Barnes. And so it was with Barnes’ sideshow […]
