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  • Collection: Popular Culture, Stereotypes, and Misrepresentations

Rockwell painting

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Norman Rockwell painting featuring a hobo on the run.

Steel Clad Bath advertisement

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Advertisement featuring a depiction of a hobo. Date unknown.

The Tramp Joke Book

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"The Latest Tramp Jokes", form of discrimination against the wanderer, cover depicts two hoboes and doghouse. Color description: yellow, red, black, white

Tom and Jerry comic book

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Cover from Tom and Jerry comic book, featuring Jerry riding a freight train with a bindlestiff. Release date unknown.

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?"

Wine bottle

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Tall wine bottle made from glass with "hobo" wine label. Caberbet Sauvignon, 2016 Alexander Vallet, Sonoma County. Produced and bottled by the Hobo Wine Company in Santa Rosa, California.

Wood Carved Shoe

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Very detailed, hand carved, holes were hand-drilled. Could be used as a match holder – very utilitarian. Sabot is a French word from which sabotage is derived. Wobblies carved wooden shoes to symbolize their disdain for rich captains of industry…