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Doughboy

Doughboy
Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of "SOLDIERS".
This is a photo taken from an album a library patron generously gave me. Taken in 1917, I believe it shows a soldier, or a "doughboy" with a woman, perhaps his mother, and a collie.
Here's a link for the nickname "doughboy" - which has an interesting history.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughboy

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 Alan Mays
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Interesting information regarding "doughboy." I have sheet music for My Doughnut Girl--about Salvation Army women providing doughnuts to soldiers during World War I--but the Wikipedia article points out that "doughboys" didn't derive from the Salvation Army doughnuts.
7 years ago.

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