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Maud Wagner
American circus performer
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| Born | Maud Stevens ()February 12, Emporia, Kansas, U.S. |
| Died | January 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, &#; January 30, ) was an American circus performer.
She was the first known female tattoo artist in the United States.
Life and career
Wagner was born in , 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 , where she was working as an aerialist.
She exchanged a romantic date with him for a lesson in tat