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Photo taken in February 1956 in unknown tattoo shop, scanned from original print. 

Since we don't have any specific information on this print - who, what, or where - I reckon we can highlight one of the tattoo designs in the background; the little skunk in the center row. 

The lil Stinker design was thought to have originated with tattooer Amund Dietzel (1890-1973. More about Dietzel can be found here) - at least according to Samuel Steward's Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos:

Amund Dietzel of Milwaukee laid claim to having invented the"Lil Stinker" skunk, and perhaps he did - or got the idea from Disney. The little skunk in all its thousand variant forms has remained consistently popular for the longest time of any of the comic tattoos. Most boys between eighteen and twenty [in the1950s] thought it cute; just what they may think of it when they are forty is hard to say.

Lil Stinker, and variations of it, are still popular designs today. 

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