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Teenage Hoboes in the Great Depression
URL: https://www.nationalheritagemuseum.org/Default.aspx?tabid=405

Description:
Small presentation about the "over 250,000 young people [who] left home [during the Great Depression] in hope and desperation and began riding freight trains or hitchhiking across America." Topics include railroads during the Depression era, the Civilian Conservation Corps, food and shelter, and art related to hobo life. Includes a bibliography. From the National Heritage Museum, an American history museum founded and supported by Scottish Rite Freemasons.

LII Topics: Railroads, The Great Depression, Transportation, United States History

Publisher:
National Heritage Museum

LII Database Information:
Record 24207 created by Jennifer English on 07/27/2007
Last modification on 07/30/2007
Published: 08/02/2007  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24207

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