Popular Culture, Stereotypes, and Misrepresentations
Description
This collection represents the hobo's storied legacy as a stereotyped and misrepresented image of economic injustice. These items represent the influence or recognition that the hobo had on American culture. Themes explored are stereotypes, appropriated cultural characteristics, cultural borrowing, etc. Items in the collection include 3D cultural materials, photographs, Norman Rockwell paintings, popular culture, and other items of significance.
Collection Items
"Time to retire?" Norman Rockwell
!["Time to retire?" Norman Rockwell](http://hoboarchive.lib.uiowa.edu/files/square_thumbnails/f497a24698a30546b8e0af5535e550f1.jpg ""Time to retire?" Norman Rockwell")
Illustration of hobo in rags, sleeping with bindlestiff, and can of soup. Text on the sign says "Time to retire? Buy Fisk".
"Still Good" Norman Rockwell
!["Still Good" Norman Rockwell](http://hoboarchive.lib.uiowa.edu/files/square_thumbnails/93344eb1ae3377a6188e4dc7198e4cd7.jpg ""Still Good" Norman Rockwell")
Illustration of hobo with bindlestiff going through the trash. Test displays "still good".
The Tramp Joke Book
"The Latest Tramp Jokes", form of discrimination against the wanderer, cover depicts two hoboes and doghouse. Color description: yellow, red, black, white