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Tramps

Here are entered works on persons who travel about from place to place living on occasional jobs or gifts of money and food. Works on the criminal offense of being idle without visible means of support are entered under Vagrancy.

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• Homeless persons
• Poor

• Rogues and vagabonds

• Tramps -- Biography
• Tramps -- Fiction
• Tramps -- Juvenile fiction
• Tramps -- United States

• A-No. 1, 1872-1944
• Davies, W. H. (William Henry), 1871-1940

• Hoboes
• Vagabonds
• Vagrants

• Papers On Out-Door Relief and Tramps, by Francis Wayland (page images at MOA)

• The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (London: A. C. Fifield, 1908), by W. H. Davies, contrib. by Bernard Shaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1917), by W. H. Davies, contrib. by Bernard Shaw
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Ways of the Hobo (6th edition; Erie, PA: A-No.1 Pub. Co., c1915), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Coast to Coast with Jack London: By A-no 1, The Famous Tramp, Written by Himself from Personal Experiences (6th edition; Erie, PA: A-No. 1 Pub. Co., c1917), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Road (New York: Macmillan, 1907), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)

• Hobo-Camp-Fire-Tales (9th edition; Cambridge Springs, PA: A-No. 1 Pub. Co., c1911), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and Adventures Of A-No. 1: America's Most Celebrated Tramp (9th edition; Cambridge Springs, PA: A-No. 1 Pub. Co., c1910), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mother Delcassee of The Hoboes, and Other Stories (Erie, PA: A-no. 1 Pub. Co., c1918), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)

• Let Me Breathe Thunder (New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1939), by William Attaway (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catty Atkins (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1920), by Clarence Budington Kelland (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Harding's Luck (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909), by E. Nesbit, illust. by H. R. Millar (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Harding's Luck (New York: F. A. Stokes, 1910), by E. Nesbit, illust. by H. R. Millar (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Papers On Out-Door Relief and Tramps, by Francis Wayland (page images at MOA)
• Strikers, Communists, Tramps and Detectives (New York: G. W. Carleton, c1878), by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• From Coast to Coast with Jack London: By A-no 1, The Famous Tramp, Written by Himself from Personal Experiences (6th edition; Erie, PA: A-No. 1 Pub. Co., c1917), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hobo-Camp-Fire-Tales (9th edition; Cambridge Springs, PA: A-No. 1 Pub. Co., c1911), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and Adventures Of A-No. 1: America's Most Celebrated Tramp (9th edition; Cambridge Springs, PA: A-No. 1 Pub. Co., c1910), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mother Delcassee of The Hoboes, and Other Stories (Erie, PA: A-no. 1 Pub. Co., c1918), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ways of the Hobo (6th edition; Erie, PA: A-No.1 Pub. Co., c1915), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (London: A. C. Fifield, 1908), by W. H. Davies, contrib. by Bernard Shaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1917), by W. H. Davies, contrib. by Bernard Shaw
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth: Awdeley's "Fraternitye of Vacabondes" and Harman's "Caveat" (London: Chatto and Windus, 1907), by John Awdelay and Thomas Harman, ed. by Edward Viles and Frederick James Furnivall
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business, by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)

• Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), ed. by Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth: Awdeley's "Fraternitye of Vacabondes" and Harman's "Caveat" (London: Chatto and Windus, 1907), by John Awdelay and Thomas Harman, ed. by Edward Viles and Frederick James Furnivall
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), ed. by Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Blacke Dogge of Newgate: Both Pithie and Profitable for All Readers (London: Printed by G. Simson and W. White, 1596), by Luke Hutton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Adventures of Roderick Random, by T. Smollett (Gutenberg text)
• The Adventures of Roderick Random (based on the 1895 Gibbings/Lippincott edition, with added illustrations), by T. Smollett, ed. by George Saintsbury, illust. by Frank Richards and George Cruikshank (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Barry Lyndon, by William Makepeace Thackeray (Gutenberg text)
• The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq., Written by Himself; and The Fatal Boots (London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1885), by William Makepeace Thackeray, illust. by John Everett Millais, George Cruikshank, and William Ralston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• K., by Mary Roberts Rinehart (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• K. (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1915), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by Charles Edward Chambers
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Departmental Committee on Habitual Offenders, Vagrants, Beggars, Inebriates, and Juvenile Delinquents, With Appendix and Index (does not include separate Report volume; Edinburgh: Printed for HMSO by Neill and Co., 1895), by Great Britain Departmental Committee on Habitual Offenders, Vagrants, Beggars, Inebriates, and Juvenile Deliquents, contrib. by Charles Cameron (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), ed. by Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Literature of Roguery (2 volumes; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1907), by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Callous Objects: Designs Against the Homeless (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), by Robert Rosenberger (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Finding Home: Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada (Toronto: Cities Centre Press, 2009), ed. by John David Hulchanski, Philippa Campsie, Shirley B. Y. Chau, Stephen H. Hwang, and Emily Paradis (PDF and Epub at homelesshub.ca)

• Youth Homelessness in Canada: Implications for Policy and Practice (Toronto: Canadian Homelessness Research Network, c2013), by Stephen A. Gaetz (PDF and Epub with commentary at homelesshub.ca)

• Youth Homelessness in Canada: Implications for Policy and Practice (Toronto: Canadian Homelessness Research Network, c2013), by Stephen A. Gaetz (PDF and Epub with commentary at homelesshub.ca)

• Youth Homelessness in Canada: Implications for Policy and Practice (Toronto: Canadian Homelessness Research Network, c2013), by Stephen A. Gaetz (PDF and Epub with commentary at homelesshub.ca)

• Finding Home: Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada (Toronto: Cities Centre Press, 2009), ed. by John David Hulchanski, Philippa Campsie, Shirley B. Y. Chau, Stephen H. Hwang, and Emily Paradis (PDF and Epub at homelesshub.ca)

• The Belovéd Vagabond (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1905), by William John Locke (Gutenberg text)
• The Belovéd Vagabond (New York and London: J. Lane, c1906), by William John Locke
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Mad Maudlin (included on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB

• The Young Outlaw: or, Adrift in the Streets, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text)

• 54 Ways You Can Help the Homeless, by Charles Kroloff (HTML at earthsystems.org)

• Hunger Among the Homeless: A Survey of 140 Shelters, Food Stamp Participation and Recommendations (Washington: GPO, 1987), by United States House Select Committee on Hunger (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Battle with the Slum, by Jacob A. Riis (illustrated HTML at Bartleby)
• Misery and Its Causes (New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Edward T. Devine (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Letters to a Clergyman, on Institutions for Ameliorating the Condition of the People, Chiefly from Paris in the Autumn of 1845 (London: Chapman and Hall, 1846), by John Minter Morgan (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.