Modest Old Man
Short article and image from "Pictures to the Editors" section of Life magazine, describing a veteran who had a September Morn-like nude tattooed on one knee, only to have it altered later to conceal the nudity.
Modest Old Man
Sirs:
This is a knee, and it belongs to a sailor. Many years ago, in 1916, he had this pretty thing (who looks rather like September Morn) tattooed on his skin, and a sister to her, besides on his other knee.
Now that the U. S. is at war again our sailor decided to re-enlist, but in the intervening years it seems that someone made a modest old man out of Uncle Sam. "Dress her up or take her off," were orders. Sadly the sailor obeyed. For a dollar, a tattoo artist down on the Bowery covered her with this 1890-vintage bathing suit. Now it's okay for her to go to sea once more. (She may even become a Wave.)
TECH. SGT. ROBERT E. KERR New York, N. Y.
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Title
Modest Old Man
Subject
September Morn tattoo.
Description
Short article and image from "Pictures to the Editors" section of Life magazine, describing a veteran who had a September Morn-like nude tattooed on one knee, only to have it altered later to conceal the nudity.
Publisher
Life Magazine
Date
1942-11-30
Language
en
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Text
Modest Old Man
Sirs:
This is a knee, and it belongs to a sailor. Many years ago, in 1916, he had this pretty thing (who looks rather like September Morn) tattooed on his skin, and a sister to her, besides on his other knee.
Now that the U. S. is at war again our sailor decided to re-enlist, but in the intervening years it seems that someone made a modest old man out of Uncle Sam. "Dress her up or take her off," were orders. Sadly the sailor obeyed. For a dollar, a tattoo artist down on the Bowery covered her with this 1890-vintage bathing suit. Now it's okay for her to go to sea once more. (She may even become a Wave.)
TECH. SGT. ROBERT E. KERR New York, N. Y.
Original Format
magazine article
Citation
"Modest Old Man," in September Morn Archive, Item #93, http://www.septembermorn.org/items/show/93 (accessed February 22, 2012).