The Electric Hobo Project
Hobo Day Memorabilia since 1912.

The Electric Hobo is a digitized collection of Hobo Day materials including buttons, posters, flyers, photographs, programs, pins and so on.

We need material! Any of the above.  Items DO NOT HAVE TO BE DONATED! We will be happy to photograph or scan the item and return it, or take a 600 ppi TIFF file as an emailed attachment.

If there are items people wish to donate, we will be happy to get in touch for that as well.

Please contact:

SDSU Archives
Briggs Library Box 2115
Brookings, SD  57007
(605) 688-4906
arcrefs@sdstate.edu
Stephen.VanBuren@sdstate.edu

Buttons | Programs | Contributors

1954 "Stomp the Sioux: October 23, 1954 SDSC vs. NDU	1962 "Beat the Sioux" October 13, 1962 SDSC vs. NDU	1963 "Exhaust the Coyotes" October 19, 1963 SDSC vs. USD
1964 "NDU Smells De-Feet" October 10, 1964 SDSU vs. NDU	1965 South Dakota State University October 16, 1965 SDSU vs. USD	1966 "Bump the Sioux" October 15, 1966 SDSU vs. NDU
1967 "Bomb the U" October 21, 1967 SDSU vs. USD	1968 "We're Gonna Blow Their Mind" October 12, 1968 SDSU vs. UND	1969 "Rabbits on the Move" October 18, 1969 SDSU vs. USD
1970 "Rip 'Em Up, Tear 'Em Up, Give 'Em Hell Jacks" October 10, 1970 SDSU vs. UND	1971 Missing from our collection	1972 "Chew the Sioux in '72" October 14, 1972 SDSU vs. UND
1973 Missing from our collection	1974 "Sink the Vikings" September 28, 1974 SDSU vs. Augustana	1975 "Bummin' to '76" October 18, 1975 SDSU vs. USD
1976 "The American Dream" October 16, 1976 SDSU vs. UND	1977 Missing from our collection	1978 October 14, 1978 SDSU vs. USD
1979 October 6, 1979 SDSU vs. USD	1980 October 18, 1980 SDSU vs. NDSU	1981 October 3, 1981 SDSU vs. UNC
1982 "The Greatest Story Ever Told" October 2, 1982 SDSU vs. NDSU	1983 "A Hobo Odyssey" October 15, 1983 SDSU vs. NDSU	1984 Missing from our collection
1985 Missing from our collection	1986 Missing from our collection	1987 Missing from our collection
1988 "Mardi Gras of the Midwest" no date Auggie vs. SDSU	1989 Missing from our collection	1990 Missing from our collection
1991 Missing from our collection	1992 "Under the Big Top!" October 3, 1992 SDSU vs. UNO	1993 "Hobo Halloween" October 30, 1993 SDSU vs. Augustana
1994 "Hobo Day Safari" October 1, 1994 SDSU vs. M'side	1995 "Hobos in Space:  One Giant Leap for Hobokind!" October 14, 1995 SDSU vs. NDSU	1996 "Hobos Staying Alive!" October 26, 1996 SDSU vs. Morningside
1997 "Hobos in Vegas!" October 11, 1997 SDSC vs. St. Cloud State	1998 "Hobos...Trapped in the Eighties!" October 17, 1998 SDSU vs. UNO	1999 "Hobos in Hawaii" October 23, 1999 SDSU vs. UND
2000 Missing from our collection	2001 Missing from our collection	2002 "Operation:  Hobo Day" October 5, 2002 SDSU vs. North Dakota
2003 "Traditions: Hobo Day" November 1, 2003 SDSU vs. St. Cloud State	2004 "Hobos Under Construction" November 6, 2004 SDSU vs. Augie	2005 "Luck of the Hobos" October 22, 2005 SDSU Jacks vs. Missouri-Rolla

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The Electric Hobo Project Contributors
 

We wish to express our thanks to all who donated or loaned memorabilia to this project.  Their generosity allows us to expand the University Archives' Hobo Day collection permitting future generations an opportunity to experience Hobo Day's of the past.

Thank You!

Cresap, Marilyn Nordmark, Alumnus (BS 1947)
Harpstead, Milo I, Alumnus (BS 1953~MS 1957)
Johnson, Norma, Alumnus (BS 1967)
Lenocker, Winfred
Nagel, Mary Kathleen Johnson, Alumnus (BS 1977)
Nordmark, Glenn, Alumnus (BS 1951)
Peterson, Carol J., Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost
Shriver, Connie
Sutthill, Susan K., Alumnus (BS 1990~MS 1993)
Swedlund, Harriet
Tolstedt, Leona (Serbousek), Almnus (BS 1954)
Tolstedt, Vern G., Alumnus (BS 1953)
Wadsworth, Nancy & Wm.
Williamson, Roberta W., Director, Moody County Historical Society

A special thanks to Paulette Owens of Huron, South Dakota for her assistance in identifying the date for the 1963 Hobo Day button!