Browse Items (48 total)

  • Collection: Popular Culture, Stereotypes, and Misrepresentations

Ladies Home Journal article on hygiene

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Piece on hygiene featuring hoboes. Date unknown.

Kellogg's "Mask the Bum" cereal box mask

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Kelloggs Mask Demon Dan Kelloggs Cereal Box Mask Uncut. Date unknown.

"His Christmas Dinner" Harper's Weekly article

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An article from Harper's Ferry featuring a story about a hobo at Christmas Time. Cover features depiction of a hobo. Release date unknown.

Fairbank soap advertisement

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Depiction of a hobo featured in the advertisement. Date unknown.

Steel Clad Bath advertisement

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Advertisement featuring a depiction of a hobo. Date unknown.

Kings in Disguise comic book

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Comic book cover a hobo inside a boxcar. Misrepresentation of hoboes as violent, criminal people. Release date unknown.

Hobo Stories comic book

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Cover of comic book features a hobo wandering down a trail. Release date unknown.

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.

1958 Cover of the Evening Post

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Featuring a young wanderer with a bindlestiff.

Photograph of hobo themed coffee shop

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