The people at the doughboysearcher.weebly.com must verify any claims of finding unknown EMV statues for credit to be awarded. To help identify a true EMV Doughboy statue, please visit here. We want to help our friends there complete their list of all EMV statuary.
NOTE: By definition, "statue" refers to any figure more than two feet tall. So paperweights and lamps don't qualify.
Click on the map above for an interactive map of known EMV Doughboys. Click here for a GPX file (rev. 3/9/23), and an up-to-date listing by state here. Map, GPX file and list provided by Eric Marshall, auxiliary rides scorer.
Naming convention for doughboy submissions: 2023_rider#_DB_state_cityname.jpg, ie. 2023_145_DB_TX_Dallas.jpg
NOTE: The list mentioned above has a column labeled “Restrictions.” Any locations labeled something other than “none” may have a restriction of some kind. Examples would include, but not be limited to: military installations, museums, offices, cemeteries, etc. These may be accessible only on certain days, have limited hours, require a special ID or guest pass, have an admission fee, etc. It is up to riders to pre-scout locations to determine access.
Photos of museum doors, hangars, guard shacks or other barricades visited on days or during hours when access to the object of the visit isn't available, are not eligible for scoring.
Special thanks to Les Kopel of Oxnard, California, and Earl Goldsmith of The Woodlands, Texas for their website The E.M. Viquesney Doughboy Database and all their help and dedication to keeping the search alive. Well done, gentlemen! [Editor's note: Mr. Goldsmith passed on March 6, 2018.]
If you’d like to learn even more about the Doughboy statues, visit the Doughboy Searcher website. You’ll run across such discussions like this one about the differences between Viquesney and the Paulding statues. From Les Kopel, webmaster:
"The only Paulding [another sculptor of Doughboys] statues with the rifle in the opposite (right) hand are the ones in Astoria, OR, and Catskill, NY; all the others of Paulding's "Over the Top" series look similar to Viquesney's statue (which is why some people get them confused).
"Most Viquesney Doughboys have an ID, either as a small plate attached to the base near the right foot (sometimes missing since it was welded on separately) on the original 1920 copper models. They can vary slightly in size, shape and design. A large ID is found on the back of the base of later 1934 zinc models. These are part of the cast base and aren't removable. The rare stone ones should say 1922 by the left foot, and it's carved into the base, so it's not removable either. The ID on the 1920 version sometimes says "Americus, Georgia" and sometimes "Spencer, Ind.", but all should have a name (if it didn't fall off as described above). A few of the 1920 plates say Walter Rylander, who owned the company for a few years. Others say "Friedley-Voshardt" (the name of the foundry). |