Pandora on a Tile Roof

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Title: Pandora on a Tile Roof See all items with this value
Caption: West China, Szechuan, Chengtu. Baby pandas captured in the mountains of western Szechuan and kept for some months on the campus of the West China Union University until there was an opportunity to ship them to the States. See all items with this value
Identifier: MFA_001
Description: The baby panda Pandora is seen on top of the tiled roof of a missionary house on the WCUU campus. This is probably the home of Frank Dickinson where Pandora lived on "Canadian Row" for two or three weeks in May and June of 1938. See all items with this value
Commentary: A different print of the same image is in the United Church of Canada Archives. The writing on the back of the UCCA version is reproduced here as the Caption. However, this photo depicts Pandora, who lived on campus only one month. See all items with this value
Creator: Harrison Mullett
Date Created: Between 1938-04-20 and 1938-05-17
Geonames: Chengdu, Sichuan; West China Union University
Event: Pandora the Panda in Chengdu
Original Format: Black and White Photographic Print
Relation: Map of the West China Union University Campus
Is Version Of: Foreign Missions Photograph Collection: UCCA 1999_001P3222
Source: Jack Mullett
Provenance: Harrison and Bea Mullett, Jack Mullett to Old China Photo Project (OCPP); Zhang Yingming scanned the originals. See all items with this value
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2026-01-06
Contributor: Cory Willmott; Zhang Yingming
Type: Still Image
References: Canadian Old Photo Project Team. 2010. Chengdu, My Home: The Chinese Feelings Across the Pacific. Chengdu: Sichuan Publishing Company Ltd.
Subject: Giant Panda

Media: MFA_001_panda.jpeg

Resource class: Image