Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction “Not the Type of Profession You Could Pursue in a Trade School”: Understanding Commercial Tattooing 1
5. 1 “What Happened in the Tattoo Shop?”: Regulation and Resilience across Canada, 1881–1989 41
6. 2 Who and Where Was “Sailor Joe”? Media, Amusement, and Investigation by the FBI and RCMP, 1887–1981 89
7. 3 “Samples Can Be Seen on the Premises”: Changing Spaces in Victoria and Vancouver, 1891–1983 141
8. 4 “To Heighten the Effect”: Relations between Visual Art and Tattooing in Halifax, 1894–1979 197
9. 5 “An Artist’s View of Tattooing”: Aba Bayefsky in Toronto and Japan, 1970–1995 255
10. Epilogue “Everybody Is the Type”: Tattoo Conventions and a Century of Commercial Tattooing in Canada 293
11. Figures 305
12. Notes 313
13. Bibliography 367
14. Index 395