The E. M. Viquesney Doughboy Database
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      • New Ulm, Minnesota (1995 Bronze Replica)
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      • Lexington, Missouri - Styrofoam Replica
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        • *Kalispell, Montana
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      • *Omaha, Nebraska
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      • Castile, New York
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      • *Vestal, New York
    • North Carolina >
      • Charlotte, North Carolina
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      • Akron, Ohio
      • *Blue Ash (Cincinnati), Ohio
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      • Gallipolis, Ohio
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      • New Philadelphia, Ohio
      • St. Bernard (Cincinnati), Ohio
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      • Warren, Ohio
      • Woodville, Ohio
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      • Henryetta, Oklahoma
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      • Forest City, Pennsylvania
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      • Scranton, Pennsylvania (Original)
      • Tatamy, Pennsylvania
      • Verona, Pennsylvania
    • South Carolina >
      • Anderson, South Carolina
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        • *Hiawatha, Utah
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  • Repair, Restoration, and Conservation (Outdoor Monuments)
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  • Other Works by E. M. Viquesney
    • 1904: The Early Years
    • 1905-1915: Civil War Memorials
    • 1916: Booklet Illustrations
    • 1920: Burial Vault Patent
    • 1921: The Rylander Theatre
    • 1922: The "Imp-O-Luck"
    • 1922: The United States Infantry Association Trophy
    • 1923: The Klan-Lite
    • 1923 (est.) - "GOB" - "The Spirit of the American Sailor"
    • 1925: The Viquesney Block
    • 1926: "The Spirit of the American Navy"
    • 1927: "The Spirit of the Skies"
    • 1928: The Tivoli Theatre
    • 1928: Plaque at Malvern, Pennsylvania
    • 1929: "Mother" (Madonna and Child)
    • 1930: "Zero Hour"
    • 1930: Flanders Cross Memorial
    • 1930s (est.) - Joan of Arc
    • 1930s (est): Service Plaque
    • 1931: Knute Rockne Bust
    • 1934: "The Unveiling"
    • 1935: Viquesney's Version of "Over the Top"
    • 1935 (est.): Memorial to the Women of the Confederacy
    • 1936: "Resting Doughboy"
    • 1936 (est.): Alf Landon Bust
    • 1936, 1937: "The Spirit of America" / "The Spirit of the Flag",
    • 1938: "Lincoln as an Indiana Boy" >
      • Guido Rebechini's Lincoln Lookalike
    • 1939: Soldiers Memorial Pavilion
    • 1940: "Creation"
    • 1942: "The Yanks Again", "Eagle's Watch", and "Remember Pearl Harbor"
    • 1943: "The Spirit of the Fighting Yank" >
      • Chicago, Illinois
      • Bloomington, Indiana
      • Port Huron, Michigan
      • Belmont, North Carolina
      • Oil City, Pennsylvania
    • 1946: "Comrades", Viquesney's Last Piece
    • Career-long Output: Plaques, Grave Markers
  • "And So the Scene Closes"
  • Carrying On: Frederic L. Hollis
  • E. M. Viquesney vs. John Paulding
    • Paulding's Model 2043-A
    • Paulding's Model 2043-B
    • Paulding's Model 2043-C
    • Paulding's Model 2043-D
  • Viquesney Doughboy Lookalikes and Derivatives
    • Greenville, Alabama (Engraved Panel)
    • Montgomery, Alabama
    • Tampa, Florida
    • New Orleans, Louisiana
    • Union City (West Hoboken), New Jersey
    • Aliquippa, Pennsylvania
    • Franklin, Pennsylvania
    • Arcadia, Wisconsin
    • The McNeel Marble Co. Doughboys >
      • Eufaula, Alabama
      • Headland, Alabama
      • Troy, North Carolina
      • Clarksville, Tennessee
      • Texarkana, Texas
    • Eagle Bronze Works, Fiske Iron Works Doughboys
    • Walter A. Sinz Doughboys
    • Other Viquesney-Inspired Lookalikes
  • Viquesney Doughboy Myths
  • Viquesney Document Archive
  • Epilogue
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Photo: Alexander Schultz, Appleton, Wisconsin.

APPLETON, WISCONSIN

N 44° 14.675 / W 088° 24.936

Original copyright version 1934 cast zinc statue
​was replaced with a cast bronze replica on
​November 6, 2017, in time for following
November 11, 2017, dedication.


Smithsonian Art Inventory Control Number: 47260128.
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On Memorial Drive, near southern end of boulevard area that extends south from the high-level Fox River Bridge. (Memorial Drive was Cherry Street until it was renamed in 1929 to honor World War veterans. It is now a memorial to all veterans.)
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The inscription on the plaque reads:

DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF
OUR COMRADES WHO ENTERED THE
SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY
FROM OUTAGAMIE COUNTY
AND WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN
THE WORLD WAR
---------
PRESENTED BY
ONEY JOHNSON POST No. 36
AMERICAN LEGION
NOVEMBER 11, 1934
A new plaque below the old one reads:

RESTORED AND REDEDICATED
ON NOVEMBER 11, 2006
BY READERS OF THE POST-CRESCENT
AND MEMBERS OF
AMERICAN LEGION POST NO. 38
Another new plaque, added for the November 2017 new cast bronze replacement, reads:

"SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN DOUGHBOY"

DESIGNATED AN OFFICIAL UNITED STATES
WWI CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL


DEDICATED ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CALL TO SERVICE
AND ULTIMATE SACRIFICE OF THE DOUGHBOYS OF OUTAGAMIE COUNTY


ARMISTICE DAY & VETERANS DAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2017
(followed by 3 columns of 116 names)
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The pedestal was acquired with public funds. The Doughboy was acquired by the local Legion, using funds raised by selling 50 cent chance for a drawing that used supplies provided by Viquesney, including a miniature Doughboy for use as the winning prize. The Doughboy’s cost of $700 in the Great Depression was $300 less than its original price in 1921.
The dedication ceremony included participation by 120th Field Artillery band, 127th Infantry, Eagles’ Drum/Bugle Corps, Appletion high band, Women’s Relief Corps, Girl/Boy/Cub scouts, Junior Red Cross, Spanish War Veterans and Auxiliary, Oney-Johnston American Legion and Auxiliary, Daughters of the American Revolution, Oney Johnston firing squad, Appleton Mayor John Goodland, Jr. and former State Legion Commander D. J. Kenny of West Bend.

* * *

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Photo: Appleton Post-Crescent.
The Doughboy was nearly destroyed in November 1986 when it was hit by an automobile whose driver had fallen asleep. It was broken from the pedestal, leaving the lower parts of the legs on the pedestal. Its upper arm was torn off. Appleton Lamplighter employees Bob Keiba, Steve Mondloch and Kevin Weisshahn, used mine detectors to sweep the area and locate all the loose pieces they could. Then they made replacements for pieces that couldn’t be found and fashioned a new rifle and bayonet. Chemically treated cement that wouldn’t expand or contract was placed in the legs to help provide stability (it didn't). The pedestal was repaired by Appleton Marble and Granite.

* * *

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The new 2017 bronze replacement (rear).
The Doughboy was replaced on his pedestal December 23, 1986. Included in the crew was Tony Knuppel, whose father, Anton, had set the Doughboy in the pedestal in 1934. The newly fashioned left hand and rifle were replaced on the Doughboy after the installation on the pedestal was completed.

Unfortunately, as mentioned above, the Doughboy's legs were filled with cement to help stabilize it, but apparently alternate seasonal freezing and thawing of moisture between this filler and the metal skin eventually caused the leg seams to split. The Doughboy was once again taken down and restored, this time by Jensen Conservation Services of Omaha, Nebraska. It was rededicated on November 11, 2006. However, a 2014 evaluation by Sculpture Valley revealed that this restoration was not a full metal repair of the zinc alloy statue as was expected, but an epoxy fill and patina fix of the seams, which, intentionally or not, masked the continuing state of the zinc alloy decay.

​Update Fall, 2014: From a Sculpture Valley report by Alexander Schultz: Jenson Restoration returned to perform another temporary restoration, at which time they strongly recommended moving the sculpture to an indoor location.

Update Spring, 2015: Sculpture Valley examined the 2014 restoration and discovered fresh deterioration and flaking already present. Plans are underway to locate a mold of the statue to create a bronze replica.

Update May 18, 2017: Innocast Execuline has completed a quotation for the city of Appleton to replace the Doughboy with a bronze cast replica. The company has created replicas for New Ulm, MN, and Jamestown, KY.

Update July 15, 2017: The statue was taken down from its pedestal, to be replaced with a bronze replica in a few months. There are plans to display the original zinc statue inside Appleton's History Museum at the Castle, but the museum does not yet have sufficient funds to display the piece. It is currently in covered storage at the City Facilities building in Memorial Park. The new bronze replica will be cast by Max-Cast foundry of Kalona, Iowa, and will be rededicated on November 11, 2017, along with a new WWI Centennial plaque.

Update November 6, 2017: The new Doughboy was reinstalled on its pedestal in time for a Veterans Day rededication ceremony, where a new plaque will also be unveiled, listing the names of those from Outagamie County who served or died in WWI. This list of names did not appear on either of the older plaques.
​
Update November 11, 2017: The Doughboy was rededicated.

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The old black-and-white photos and essentially all items of information about the Appleton Doughboy (except the updates from Alexander Schultz of Sculpture Valley) were provided by Don Evans, Researcher at Appleton’s Outagamie County Historical Society.
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Links:
Historical Marker Database
fox11online.com
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wbay.com
wearegreenbay.com
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postcrescent.com​
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​fox11online.com/rededication
​virtualglobetrotting.com
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