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| Title: | Doughboy Statue in Overton Park, Memphis, Tennessee |
| Other Titles: | Memphis, Tennessee Gateway to the South and the West |
| Keywords: | Memphis (Tenn.)
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Overton Park
Statues
Parks
Soldiers
Bayonets
Sculpture
Hahn, Nancy Coonsman, ca. 1892-1976 |
| Date Issued: | 1938 |
| Series/Report no.: | Rhodes College Postcard Collection |
| Abstract: | This 1926 copper sculpture in Overton Park, Memphis, Tennessee depicts an infantryman from World War I or "doughboy," as these soldiers were called. This sculpture created by Nancy Coonsman Hahn was among the most popular type of American memorials to World War I fighting soldiers. |
| Description: | This 3x5 image is included in a postcard folder "Memphis Tennessee The Gateway to the South and West," postmarked 1938. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10267/248 |
| Appears in Collections: | Rhodes College Postcards
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