The wonder book of freaks and animals in the Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth : 1898.

Date:
1898
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Credit: The wonder book of freaks and animals in the Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth : 1898. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    Copyright,-] MISS ANNIE HOWARD. [Reghtnid. MISS ANNIE HOWARD, the Tat- tooed Woman, was born at Providence, R.I., in a year which is not given out by her, though it is not so long ago that she need to be ashamed of it. She is a freak of art, and not of nature. Her brother, Frank, was being exhibited as a tattooed man when she visited him, as a girl ot ten, and saw him working a design upon a lady'^ aiTP. She teased him to tattoo one upon hei arm, and succeeded in getting him to do s<i Later, when he had opened an office in Chicago for tattooing the arms of fashionable women whn had succumbed to the fad—a fad, by the way. that has taken a deep hold of London within thi year—Miss Annie conceived the idea of bein,; tattooed all over and going on exhibition as her brother had done before her. It took eighteen months of excruciating torture to complete the work, for it was done before the discovery of the electric process. There are 590 designs in red, blue and own upon her body. FRANK HOWARD, the Tat- tooed Man, has an even more intricately mottled skin than his sister, there being 780 designs pricked into the cuticle, and left indelibly marked in sepia and per- manent pigments. Mr. Howard was also born in the city of Roger Williams, the date being April, 1857. When a boy he enlisted as a drummer in the American army, and was sent to the western frontier. While he was among the Indians an old sailor did for him the thorough job of tattooing that finally sent him upon the freak's platform. Copyrishi,] ( ) FRANK HOWARD. \_Rcsisic7ed.