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Menu from hobo themed restaurant called Hobos Bar and Grill

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

Menu from Hobo Restaurant and Coffee Shop

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

Medicine Bottles & Nicotine Sulfate

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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…

Matchstick house

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Delicate tramp art made from used matches and glue. Artist created a representation of a slave house build on wealthy plantation.

Magazine feature of the 2018 Hobo Convention

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Feature of the Hobo Convention in 2018 in Artful Living Magazine. Photography by Lee Snyder and article written by Marguerite Happe.

Lonely are the Graves article

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An article written by Hood River Blackie about the backcountry of the West.

Little Orphan Annie The Hobo

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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.

Liberty Justice in Concert

A recording of a concert performance by Hobo King Liberty Justice, live from the 1992 National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa.

Letter written to Mountain Dew

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Letter sent to Mountain Dew written by Will Hoover. Discussion over an article written about Britt possibly published by the Des Moines Register and Tribune. Good luck coin sent to Mountain Dew