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  • Collection: Popular Culture, Stereotypes, and Misrepresentations

Rockwell painting

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Norman Rockwell painting featuring a hobo cooking over a fire.

Rockwell painting

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Norman Rockwell painting featuring a hobo and his dog.

Rockwell painting

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Norman Rockwell painting featuring a hobo on the run.

Hobo Natural Pear Wood Beard & Stache Comb

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A comb was indispensable for the hobo to neaten hair & beard to appear well-groomed during his job hunting. The hobo beard oil (from HoboCompany, Hutto, TX) goes with this display, plus any other grooming aides in the collection.

The Hobo Company…

Whiz Comics: Captain Marvel a Hobo?

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Cover image depicts hobo walking along train tracks looks at billboard with Captain Marvel. Billboard text displacts "Is Captain Marvel a hobo?"

"Time to retire?" Norman Rockwell

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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

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Illustration of hobo with bindlestiff going through the trash. Test displays "still good".

"Hobo Gear" hat

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Navy cap, 1990s style, with white print