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Cover featuring Annie sitting in a hobo jungle. Description says "when kidnappers are chasing Annie, she had to escape quickly and without notice, so she went looking for the experts -- the hobos!" Release date unknown.

The Hobo Medicine Co. became located in Shreveport, LA as early as November 14, 1914, and Beaumont, Texas by January 1, 1923.

A 1938 letter to a Texas physician from the American Medical Association Bureau of Investigation: "Government chemists…

A cozy modern restaurant, snack bar and steak restaurant. In Vagabond Motel in Miami, Florida.

Menu from hobo themed restaurant in Ouakertown, PA. Data unknown.

Menu from an unknown hobo themed restaurant. Location and date unknown.

This an actual end of a ship’s hawser line – the heavy cables that anchored ships. Frying' Plan Jack tied this sample to show how a real monkey’s fist was used aboard ship. There would be a rock or piece of metal inside the rope (heavy enough that…

From the book "The Hobo Style". Items found in the National Hobo Museum in Britt, Iowa. Made by Helen Pechota.

Photograph taken outside a hobo themed coffee. Location and data unknown.

Norman Rockwell painting featuring a hobo cooking over a fire.

Norman Rockwell painting featuring a hobo and his dog.