Laura Riddell, Teacher at Canadian School in West China

Title: Laura Riddell, Teacher at Canadian School in West China
Caption: Laura Riddell, Teacher and Sometimes Matron
Identifier: JGFA_012
Description: Laura Riddell seated in a wicker chair reading a book in a drawing room with a roll up desk in one corner with a Chinese vase and possibly a candlestick on top of it. Another desk has a model Chinese junk on it and two Chinese candlesticks. There is a Chinese carpet on the floor.
Commentary: Bill Gentry was a student at the CSWC at Chongqing. He writes, "I guess I was one of her [Riddell's] favorites, for when she went home on furlough at the end of my seventh grade, she left me a large beautiful model of a wooden junk." Don Willmott also had the same model junk, which he displayed on the mantle of his Toronto home.
Date Created: c.1931
Location: Chongqing
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1814906/chongqing.html
Original Format: Photographic Print
Source: Jean Good Zamin
Provenance: Barbara Jones Good Family Collection
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2025-05-30
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image
References: Emily Gentry. 1988. China Memories, 1924-1938. (self-published by Bill Gentry)