print email comment close 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. 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