An E. M. Viquesney Archive
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  • T. Perry Wesley's Original 1991 Doughboy Report
  • T. Perry Wesley's 1994 Doughboy Report Update
  • E. M. Viquesney's 1935 "Lost" Locations List
  • Doughboy Monument Ads
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  • Doughboy Lamp Ads
  • Doughboy Sales Brochure
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  • "Spirit of America" Plaque Sales Brochure
  • Product Catalog, Cards, Fliers
  • The Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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  • Berchem vs. Viquesney Lawsuit and More
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  • The Beaver Club
  • Cora Bell Barnes Viquesney
  • Elizabeth Sadler Viquesney
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  • Source Chronology
  • The Planned Viquesney Museum
  • Viquesney Family on Find A Grave
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The Friedley-Voshardt logo on the Warren, Ohio Doughboy.

FOUNDRIES AND MANUFACTURERS
USED BY VIQUESNEY

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Although most of Viquesney's pressed sheet bronze "Spirit of the American Doughboy" statues bear his name and copyright, most also bear no founder's mark, but are now known to have been manufactured by the Friedley-Voshardt Company of Chicago, Illinois, because three of them can be directly traced to that company, and because ads like the one at right in trade magazines identified the manufacturer as such. The nameplate on the statue at Warren, Onio, above, bears the company name, and the statue at Garfield Park, Chicago, Illinois, below, was pictured in a Friedley-Voshardt catalog page. A Friedley-Voshardt sales invoice for the Fort Worth, Texas Doughboy appears on our Business Correspondence page.

However, in 1934 the Great Depression forced Viquesney to switch to a much less detailed Doughboy design, to be used for casting the statues in cheaper zinc. These were sold for as little as $700 and were made by the Raphael Groppi Studio, also of Chicago. These later, zinc models of "The Spirit of the American Doughboy" are described here.

In addition a third, stone version of the statue was made by the McNeel Marble Company of Marietta, Georgia. The company also produced a lookalike statue that was identical to Viquesney's version, only it was lacking the backpack and gas mask pouch.

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1926 Friedly-Voshardt catalog pages featuring Viquesney's ''Sailor'' at Palatka, Florida, and his ''Spirit of the American Doughboy'' formerly at Garfield Park (now at Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois).
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