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| Date: | 2007 |
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| Description: | Female Badger fan with a temporary tattoo of Bucky Badger on her cheek. She is seen in profile at a University of Wisconsin-Madison football game. |
| Date: | 2007 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of "Eye of the Tiger Custom Tattoo." |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | This glamorous half-length publicity still shows Pola Negri dressed for the role of the Countess Elnora Natatorini in the 1925 Paramount production "A Woma... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | "Bruiser's Sports grill" employee talking outdoors with a shirtless, tattooed man by dumpsters. |
| Date: | 09 15 1953 |
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| Description: | One of the activities during the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union open house student orientation was a tattoo contest. Paul Schnucker of Lancaster tr... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Factory worker near a conveyor belt at International Harvester's Indianapolis Works. The man has tattoos on both arms. Original caption states: "Newton Ris... |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | Two men, a woman, and a dog posing outdoors in front of the storefront of Mind Altering Tattoos. |
| Date: | 08 25 1950 |
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| Description: | Dale Coyler shown holding "Squeaky," a ring-tailed monkey from the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). He takes the monkey home with him on his days off to a... |
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| Description: | A hand and arm tattooed with designs originating on the Marquesas Islands. |
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| Description: | An illustration of a man with a full body tattoo. He is an inhabitant of the Island of Nukahiwa. |
| Date: | 01 16 2004 |
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| Description: | "Mike Wagner, the tattooed owner of Schuyler Street Pub, brought us their delicious food. Mike told us that he is a devoted biker." |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A body on a stretcher is lying on the deck of the USS "Samaritan." The body is covered by a blanket, except for an arm which has a small tattoo. Behind the... |
| Date: | 2006 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a woman, Jessa, with a red and black tattoo on her arm, posing in front of a white wall. Taken during her last day working at a La Crosse food ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A man, identified only as "Sheik" is posing with his wife in a doorway with a curtain hanging behind them. The man is wearing a white robe over a Western-s... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An unidentified woman is posing for a head and shoulders portrait in the doorway of a stone or adobe building. She is wearing a head scarf, beaded necklace... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Two women, identified by the photographer as "wives" (possibly both wives of the same man), posing in the doorway of a stone building. The wooden door behi... |
| Date: | 2016 |
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| Description: | A young Indian woman, Ishrat, is sitting in a lawn chair in her booth at a fair. She is wearing a traditional Punjabi outfit (the salwar kameez) and is off... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Autochrome portrait of a tattooed Tuareg woman posing in front of a patterned cloth hanging behind her. She is wearing a head wrap, as well as several brac... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A woman and young girl are posing, sitting on the ground on a patterned carpet, with a dog resting with them. The woman has forearm tattoos, multiple brace... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Four young women, one holding an infant, are posing sitting on a rug on the ground, inside the corner of two walls. Identified by the photographer only as ... |
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