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The Early Origins of Temporary Tattoos: Hand-Painted Knees
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!
A temporary tattoo of a whimsical whale from a Cracker Jack box would hardly turn a head in 1912, but a portrait painted by hand on a woman’s knee in the ’20s? Now that was scandalous.