Graham Family on SS Jean LaBorde, 1939

Title: Graham Family on SS Jean LaBorde, 1939
Caption: 1939-Graham-family-on-SSJeanLaBorde
Identifier: DCG_072
Description: The Graham family sitting around a wicker table on the deck of the French ocean liner, SS Jean LaBorde. Left to right: David, Dorothy, unidentified man, Alicia, Jean.
Commentary: They had to take the French Indochina route out of Sichuan because the Japanese held the lower Yangtze River. Their trip went from Yibin to Kunming, Yunnan, to Haiphong, then to Hong Kong, where they caught the ocean liner.
Date Created: 1939
Original Format: Photographic Print
Source: Chris Hoogendyk
Provenance: Jean Graham Brown and Dorothy Graham Edson, daughters of DCG, and Chris Hoogendyk, grandson of DCG.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2025-05-31
Contributor: Cory Willmott
References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTS_Oceanos
Published In: David Crockett Graham, n/d. Autobiography, pp. 57-8.