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American circus performer

Maud Wagner
Maud Wagner in c. 1907
Born	Maud Stevens (1877-02-12)February 12, 1877 Emporia, Kansas, U.S.
Died	January 30, 1961(1961-01-30) (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, 1877 – January 30, 1961) was an American circus performer.

Maud Stevens Wagner (née Stevens; February 12, – January 30, ) was an American circus performer.

Maud Stevens Wagner (–) was the first known female tattoo artist in the United States.

Maud's Circus was named "Best Book of the Year" with the Maxy Awards for Her novel, Hour Glass, won Chanticleer Review's "Best Book of the Year" award in.

Maud Wagner, the first known woman tattooist, who in traded a date with her tattooist husband-to-be for an apprenticeship.

Maud Wagner.

She was the first known female tattoo artist in the United States.

Life and career

Wagner was born in 1877, 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 1904, where she was working as an aerialist.