vintage mabel darpel carnival circus sideshow tattoo photo grind show 2.5x4.5

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vintage mabel darpel carnival circus sideshow tattoo photo grind show 2.5x4.5
photo is 2.5x4.5 inches in very good shape.
original black and white photo that came from mabel darpel's original photo album.  i can find no records of this "joint" or performer.  mabel spent her entire life in various sideshows and carnivals with her dad and one of her husband's joe.  its very hard to say even what year this is from but probably 1950s is my guess.
Joe Darpel, 1901-1968, was a lifelong carnival/circus sideshow manager, tattooed and tattooed man. He had a body suit of beautiful tattoos that were put on by Bert Grimm or William Grimshaw or both (and probably others) sometime in the late 1910s.
Around that same time he began tattooing on sideshows and carnivals. It was at one of William Kennedy's sideshows where Joe met Mabel Kennedy (William's daughter) where Joe was sideshow manager. Mabel was quite an accomplished sideshow performer as psychic, knife thrower and horse rider and later an accomplished tattooer herself.
Later they were married in a carnival and they became tattooing partners, traveling with sideshows and operating tattoo shops in Virginia, Kansas and finally in Texas for many years. Joe and Mabel both painted beautiful tattoo flash that is very rare, loved and sought after by serious collectors.
last photo is extremely rare photo of mabel darpel circa 1930s.  it is not included in the sale but just to add historical context to the photo.
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