Bill Willmott Petting a Panda

Item

Title
Bill Willmott Petting a Panda See all items with this value
Identifier
WFC_111
Description
Bill Willmott sits on the lawn with his hand on the back of Pandah, one of the pandas captured in 1941. The panda is on a leash. A brick wall is in the background. See all items with this value
Commentary
Pandah was the smaller and the friendlier of the two pandas that David Crockett Graham captured for Mme. Chiang Kaishek in the fall of 1941. Bill Willmott was not at school because he suffered a low fever, which later he described as tuberculosis. The Canadian School in West China had moved to Renshou where the children were safer from Japanese bombs. See all items with this value
Creator
Leslie Earl Willmott
Date Created
Between 1941-09-30 and 1941-11-6
Geonames
Chengdu, Sichuan
West China Union University
Event
1941 Graham's Giant Panda Hunt
Original Format
Photographic Print
Relation
Map of the West China Union University Campus
Two Girls and a Boy with a Panda
Dryden Phelps Holding a Panda
Source
Cory Willmott
Provenance
Leslie Earl and Mary Katharine Willmott, to Richard Edward Willmott; scanned by Elizabeth Willmott. See all items with this value
Access Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher
SIUE
Record Date
2026-01-10
Contributor
Cory Willmott; Elizabeth Willmott
Type
Still Image
References
Davis, D. Dwight. The Giant Panda: A Morphological Study of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Fieldiana Zoological Memoirs, Vol. 3. Chicago Natural History Museum, 1964, p. 32; Earl Willmott New Note #181, Chengdu, Nov. 12, 1941 (Willmott Family Archives)
Subject
Giant Panda
Media
WFC_111_LEW Bill w panda about 1940.tif

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WFC_111_LEW Bill w panda about 1940.tif
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