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• Aerial View of Busy Hankow Harbor
  The photo is taken looking down on the boats parked in the Hankow harbor, perhaps from the window of a building on the bund. In the lower left, one can see the decorative trees planted in rows along the bund. The harbor is quite narrow and the sailboats are packed in several deep to the shore. Across the harbor there are industrial buildings on the shore in the background. This image was likely created for and used in lectures given by the Grahams and other missionaries "back home" while on furlough.
• 03 Masts of Boats at a Yangtze River Harbor
  Rows of sailboats parked at a harbor on the Yangtze River give the impression of a "forest of masts." It is not clear whether there are docks to park the boats.
• 02 Sailboat with Little Orphan Island
  A large rock island near the north shore of the Yangtze River just downstream from Jiujiang, Jiangxi (Kiukiang). The island has a small pagoda on the top and a Buddhist temple halfway up the rock face from the shore. A large sailboat passing by in front of it gives a sense of scale to the mountainous rock.
• 01 Sailboat at Mouth of Yangtze River
  A wooden boat with two tall rectangular sails on a large body of water at the mouth of the Yangtze River.
• 1913 Graham's First Yangtze River Journey
  David Crockett and Alicia Graham left Boston for West China on Sept. 14th, 1911, and sailed from San Francisco on Oct. 4th, 1911. When they reached Shanghai, however, they encountered the aftermath of the Republican Revolution and the missionaries who had evacuated West China on account of it. They therefore spent their first year in China in nearby Shaohsing and Mokanshan learning the Sichuanese language. The Grahams embarked on their first voyage up the Yangtze River to Sichuan on January 1st, 1913. It is not known how many of David Crockett Graham’s photographs of the Yangtze River were taken during this voyage. Many of his photographs of the Yangtze River were no doubt taken on later voyages during furloughs and evacuations. We do know that Graham’s Kodak camera was stolen by a “Chinese pick-pocket” in Wuchang before they got to Hankow. The camera was later found in a second-hand store and sent back to Graham, but we will never know how many pictures were lost thereby. The photographs in this series represent those that Graham most likely took on that first voyage in the order of locations they visited or passed.
• Alicia Morey Graham with Baby Panda
  Alicia Morey Graham standing on a lawn at WCUU holding a panda that might be Pandora.
• Jean Graham and Anne Kennard with Baby Panda
  D.C. Graham's daughter, Jean, and Anne Kennard sitting on a lawn at the WCUU campus, holding a panda that might be Pandora.
• D.C. Graham XGOY Panda Broadcast
  D.C. Graham and John Tee Van seated across a table at the XGOY "Voice of China" radio studio, talking about the pandas.
• D.C. Graham Talking to Reporters, Chungking
  David Crockett Graham speaking to reporters. He is seen in side view surrounded by a group of people, one of whom appears to have a camera. Behind Graham on the right, the man with the hat is John TeeVan from the Bronx Zoo. The woman facing Graham is Annalee Whitmore. She was a reporter then, but later became publicity manager for the United China Relief which was soliciting aid for China in the war with Japan.
• Madame Chiang with Baby Panda
  Madame Chiang, wife of Chiang Kai-Shek, playing with a panda sources by David Crockett Graham.
• David Crockett Graham, John Tee Van, and a Panda
  D.C. Graham and Mr. Tee Van watching a panda in its wooden cage.
• D.C. Graham and Mr. Tee Van with Panda
  D.C. Graham and Mr. Tee Van letting a panda out of its wooden cage.
• Workers Unloading a Panda
  Image of several workers unloading a crate which a panda is held in.
• D.C. Graham with a Panda, 1941
  David Crockett Graham playing with the panda.
• Graham in Chengdu after Panda Hunt
  David Crockett Graham in a compound in Chengdu after returning from the panda hunt. During the return trip Graham had been severely ill and lost a lot of weight.
• Bert Rape with Panda
  Bert Rape playing with a panda on a field of grass. The two pandas stayed at Rape's home during their stop over in Chungking before their journey to New York.
• Magistrate and Others with Panda
  Magistrate and gatekeeper with a panda. The magistrate is on the left behind a small child and in front of a woman. A monk is on the steps in robes. There are two other men to the right.
• Wenchuan Magistrate Family
  Image of the Wenchuan Magistrate with his pregnant wife and young child. The magistrate is holding a cane, and there is an officer without shoes in the background.
• Altar of the Wa-Ssu Hunters
  Flat stone with pelts and pieces of cloth beside it. An empty glass bottle and burning incense are at the foot of the altar.
• Wa-Ssu Hunter Worship
  Wa-Ssu Hunter worshiping the hunter's god before going out to hunt. There is a flat stone with Chinese characters on it. The published version is cropped.
• Wa-Ssu Hunters and Dogs
  This portrait shows six Wa-Ssu panda hunters in their Indigenous style dress and turbans with rifles. There are two dogs of different breeds that they use for hunting pandas. In the published version, the image is flipped horizontally.
• 1941 Graham's Giant Panda Hunt
  After the death in the Bronx Zoo of Pandora and Pan in 1941 and 1940, respectively, officials at the zoo began to search for another pair of Giant Pandas to replace them. On June 17, 1941, Dr. Frank Price, on behalf of the Chinese government, asked David Crockett Graham to procure them. As the first diplomatic gift of pandas from the ruling party of China to a foreign nation, Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Soong Mei-ling) presented them to the American people as a symbol of solidarity between the two nations.