Pandora Arriving at Hong Kong Met by Roy Spooner

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Title: Pandora Arriving at Hong Kong Met by Roy Spooner See all items with this value
Identifier: RCS_014
Alternative Identifier: pic023
Description: Roy Spooner meeting Pandora as she disembarked from the four-seater Chinese National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) plane at Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong. See all items with this value
Commentary: A photo by Kwong Lam Studio, which was taken at the same time from a different angle, was published in the Hong Kong Daily Press, 1938-05-19. Pandora is seated on a wicker basket eating a sprig of sugar cane, one of the new elements in Pandora's diet introduced by foreigners. Roy Spooner, who had known Pandora in Chengdu, stands behind her touching her back. See all items with this value
Creator: Roy or Kathleen Spooner
Date Created: 1938-05-18
Location: Hong Kong See all items with this value
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1819729/hong-kong.html
Event: Pandora: From Sichuan to the World’s Fair
Source: David Spooner
Provenance: Roy Cowieson and Kathleen Spooner, David Spooner (Roy's and Kathleen's son). Scanned by Zhang Mingying. See all items with this value
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2026-01-03
Contributor: Cory Willmott; Zhang Yingming
Type: Still Image
References: "Baby Panda Flown Here." Hong Kong Telegraph, May 19, 1938, p. 12.; "Rare Panda Arrives by Plane: Baby Specimen for New York Zoo." Hong Kong Daily Press, May 20, 1938, p. 1.

Media: RCS_014_Vpic023.jpg

Resource class: Image