Image credits

Every picture on Sitlist is a historic public-domain or no-known-restrictions image from the Library of Congress or The Metropolitan Museum of Art. We resized and cropped them for the web.

The John Margolies photos show real roadside tattoo shops as they looked in the 1980s. They are used as period atmosphere only. Those shops, their owners and the institutions listed here are not connected to Sitlist and do not endorse it.

ImageTitleSourceRights statement
Portrait of Mrs. Maud Stevens Wagner, showing images tattooed on her upper body (c1907)
Used on: Home
Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/item/2006687059/
No known restrictions on publication (Library of Congress rights advisory).
The professor of tattooing at work, W.A. Rogers ([1889?])
Used on: Resources
Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/item/2010717637/
No known restrictions on publication (Library of Congress rights advisory; Cabinet of American Illustration).
Sailor Bills Tattooing, Victory Drive, Columbus, Georgia, John Margolies (1982)
Used on: Home (newsletter band background)
Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/item/2017702468/
No known restrictions on publication (Library of Congress rights advisory; John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive).
Jamaican Joe's Tattoo Studio, Jacksonville, North Carolina, John Margolies (1985)
Used on: Newsletter (subscribe band background)
Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/item/2017708822/
No known restrictions on publication (Library of Congress rights advisory; John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive).
The Actor Nakamura Fukusuke I as Asahina Tōbei, likened to Lu Zhishen the Tattooed Priest, from A Modern Water Margin (Tōsei suikoden), Utagawa Kunisada (1854)
Used on: Newsletter
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/55528
Public domain; released by The Met under its Open Access policy (CC0).
The Actor Kawarazaki Gonjūrō I as Ude no Kisaburō, likened to Wu Song the Ascetic, from A Modern Water Margin (Tōsei suikoden), Utagawa Kunisada (1854)
Used on: Home (archive art below the tools list)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/55529
Public domain; released by The Met under its Open Access policy (CC0).
Utagawa's Lifetime Masterpiece, from the Japanese version of the Shuihu Zhuan, Utagawa Kunisada (1863)
Used on: Featured
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/55543
Public domain; released by The Met under its Open Access policy (CC0).

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