Hobos aren’t homeless people. Homeless people want a place to live and should be helped. Hobos are drifters by choice who like to roam, who don’t want no home. Below are some historical images of the bindle-stick set.
Hobos have no choice but to walk the rails, after being put off a train.
The Big Hand-Out Hobo Convention in Cincinnati. Photo was taken sometime between 1910-1915.
Hobos take shelter in Chicago in 1929.
Ben Reitman (1879–1942) wasn't a hobo but an anarchist medicine man who treated the impoverished and became known as the "Hobo Doctor."
Leon Ray Livingston was a hobo known as "A-No. 1." This is the cover of his book about traveling 500,000 miles on $7.61!
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