Napa Valley, Ca. More Than Twenty-Five Years a Bindle-Stiff. Walks From the Mines to the Lumber Camps to the Farms Digital History ID 2683

Napa Valley, Ca. More Than Twenty-Five Years a Bindle-Stiff. Walks From the Mines to the Lumber Camps to the Farms

Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: photograph
Museum Number: LC-USF34-018799-E
Annotation: A bindle-stiff is another name for “hobo” or transient. Many men (and women) hopped trains or traveled by foot chasing after seasonal jobs throughout the country.
Year: 1938

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