COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
SAAM.1986.65.379
AMICA Library Year:
1999
Object Type:
Sculpture
Creator Name:
Unknown
Creator Nationality:
North American; American
Creator Role:
Artist
Creator Dates/Places:
active 1930s
Creator Name-CRT:
Unidentified
Title:
Eletrical Tattooing
Title Type:
Title
View:
Full View
Creation Date:
ca. 1920s-1930s
Creation Start Date:
1920
Creation End Date:
1939
Materials and Techniques:
painted wood with iron and brass trim and electrical fittings, tattooing needles and ink, paper card, labels,metal box, and glass bottles
Dimensions:
box: 20 7/8 x 14 3/8 x 7 in. (52.9 x 36.4 x 17.7 cm.)
AMICA Contributor:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Owner Location:
Washington, DC, USA
ID Number:
1986.65.379
Credit Line:
Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
Inscriptions:
box lid in red and black paint: ELETRICAL (sic) TATTOOING (written vertically)metalbox top printed in gold outlined in red: WOOD'S/EMERGENCY CASE/FOR FIRST AID/MANUFACTUREDBY/Johnson & Johnson/NEW BR...
Copyright:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Related Image Identifier Link:
SAAM.1986.65.379.tif
