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Doughboy Statue in Overton Park, Memphis, Tennessee

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Parks, Soldiers, Sculpture, Hahn, Nancy Coonsman, ca. 1892-1976, Memphis (Tenn.), Postcards), Images, Overton Park (Memphis, Tenn.), Statues
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Rhodes College Postcard Collection
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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.
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This 3x5 image is included in a postcard folder "Memphis Tennessee The Gateway to the South and West," postmarked 1938.