Gordon Jones with Pandora

Item

Title
Gordon Jones with Pandora See all items with this value
Caption
On back of original: Chungking, China, May 18, 1938. Pandora and Gordon Jones snapped by Dr. Richardson, featuring the latest style in men's trousers, as worn by the best panda admirers. See all items with this value
Identifier
JGFA_004
Description
Gordon Jones plays with baby Pandora on her way to the Bronx zoo in New York. Dr. Frank Dickinson had been instrumental in securing her, while Roy Spooner and family were responsible for transporting her from Hong Kong to San Francisco. See all items with this value
Commentary
Pandora was one of 13 live baby pandas to pass through Chengdu and Chongqing between 1936 and 1941. As director of the Business Agency, Gordon was responsible for arranging transportation for those pandas under the care of Canadian missionaries, including Pandora and Pan. A note on a mockup for the Old China Photo Project panel says, "At the edge of the tennis court at the Agency, 1938." I have been unable to positively identify "Dr. Richardson," but it might be A.R. Richardson of the China Inland Mission who appears in the 1926 and 1936 directories. See all items with this value
Creator
Dr. Richardson
Date Created
1938-05-18
Location
Chongqing See all items with this value
Geonames
https://www.geonames.org/1814906/chongqing.html
Original Format
Photographic Print
Relation
Three years later, David Crockett Graham was asked by Mme. Chiang to secure a pair of baby pandas for the Bronx Zoo to replace Pandora and Pan, who had died after only a short time.
1941 Graham's Giant Panda Hunt
Source
Jean Good Zamin
Provenance
Barbara Jones Good Family Collection See all items with this value
Access Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher
SIUE
Record Date
2025-05-30
Contributor
Cory Willmott
Type
Still Image
References
Anon. 1926. The West China Missions Advisory Board's Directory According to Missions. Chengdu: Canadian Methodist Mission Press.
Anon. 1936. Directory of Protestant Missions in China, in the Order of Missions Under the Various Stations in Each Province, with an Alphabetical List of Mission Workers. Shanghai: The North-China Daily News and Herald, Ltd.
2010. Old China Photo Show (OCPP) mockup panels
Media
JGFA_004_GR Jones and Panda.jpg
Resource class
Image