Historic Photo Archive by Vintage Roadside

Hobo eating beside railroad tracks. 1947

9912-09B. A hobo pauses for a track-side dinner in his long journey through Montana and Wyoming around the summer of 1947. He has improvised a stove made of scrap steel and rocks in the shade of an industrial cabin. The photographer made several exposures while he ate a soup-like entree with bread and an apple.

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Filename: 9912-09B.tif
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Image Size: 6455x4388 / 54.1MB; Wyoming hobo original negative tramp railroad eating homeless man
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9912-09B. A hobo pauses for a track-side dinner in his long journey through Montana and Wyoming around the summer of 1947. He has improvised a stove made of scrap steel and rocks in the shade of an industrial cabin. The photographer made several exposures while he ate a soup-like entree with bread and an apple.