Two Girls and a Boy with a Panda

Item

Title
Two Girls and a Boy with a Panda
Identifier
WFC_112
Description
Bill Willmott and two unidentified girls sit on a porch with Pandah. A servant is on the porch with them. The older girl holds Pandah's leash.
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.
Creator
Leslie Earl Willmott
Date Created
Between 1941-09-30 and 1941-11-6
Original Format
Photographic Print
Source
Cory Willmott
Provenance
Leslie Earl and Mary Katharine Willmott, to Richard Edward Willmott; scanned by Elizabeth Willmott.
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

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