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  • Collection: Popular Culture, Stereotypes, and Misrepresentations

Rockwell painting

Norman Rockwell painting featuring a hobo cooking over a fire.

Rockwell painting

Norman Rockwell painting featuring a hobo and his dog.

Rockwell painting

Norman Rockwell painting featuring a hobo on the run.

Hobo Natural Pear Wood Beard & Stache Comb

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?

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

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

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

"Hobo Gear" hat

Navy cap, 1990s style, with white print