[Two hobos walking along railroad tracks, after being put off a train] – Antique Print
![[Two hobos walking along railroad tracks, after being put off a train], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/35/3576b869161c-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Two hobos walking along railroad tracks, after being put off a train] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Two hobos walking along railroad tracks, after being put off a train]
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Two men trudge along a railroad track after being put off a train, a scene familiar to the many itinerant workers who rode freight cars in search of work. The picture belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of early twentieth-century news photographs, though the caption card carries no date and the title is unverified. Railroads routinely expelled unpaid riders, leaving them to walk to the next town, so the image records a common hardship of the period rather than one documented event. Its catalog tracings file it under tramps, a label that reflected how the press often portrayed transient laborers.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Tramps; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,000 × 4,189 px · prints to 10 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-127280 |
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