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Illustration of hobo in rags picking up use cigar from the street. Text displays: "I find things picking up."

Drawing of man being chased up a tree by a bull. Text displays "I may be here for some time."

Illustration of hobo in rags, sleeping with bindlestiff, and can of soup. Text on the sign says "Time to retire? Buy Fisk".

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

Navy cap, 1990s style, with white print

blue shirt

Traditionally, travelers would bake bread over a jungle fire in a #10 tin can. Today, many bakeries have used the hobo figure for business reasons, including the naming of businesses.

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…

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