Teenage Hoboes in the Great Depression:
Materials from the Uys Family Collection
June 17, 2005-February 16, 2006

Boy Hopping Freight Train, 1940
John Vachon (1914-1975)
Dubuque, Iowa
Courtesy of Library of Congress
Gift of Errol Lincoln Uys, Michael Uys, and Lexy Lovell

“To be a hobo, you had to know how to get on a train while it was moving. Some hoboes got killed by trying to get on trains that were moving too fast.”

Luther S. Head, McDonald, Pennsylvania