Woman Standing Behind Pandora in Tree

Title: Woman Standing Behind Pandora in Tree
Identifier: RCS_002
Alternative Identifier: pic021
Description: Woman with hat standing behind Pandora, who is sitting in the crotch of a small tree on the WCUU campus.
Commentary: A colorized photograph of Pandora in the same tree from the family archives of Dr. Albert Best is presented in the Vic in China digital exhibit - see references link. This page also includes a photo of two pandas that might depict this same unidentified woman.
Creator: Roy or Kathleen Spooner
Date Created: Between 1938-04-20 and 1938-05-19
Geonames: Chengdu, Sichuan; https://www.geonames.org/1815286/chengdu.html; West China Union University; https://www.geonames.org/12718447/ackerman-clock-tower-huaxi-campus.html
Event: Pandora the Panda in Chengdu
Relation: A series of photos of Pandora and other pandas from the Walmsley and Best families can be seen here: Girling, Alison. 2015. “Pandora the Panda Bear,” Vic in China.; https://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/exhibitions/vic_in_china/sections/life_in_west_china/pandora_the_panda_bear.html
Source: David Spooner
Provenance: Roy Cowieson and Kathleen Spooner, David Spooner (Roy's and Kathleen's son). Scanned by Zhang Mingying.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2026-01-02
Contributor: Cory Willmott; Zhang Mingying
Type: Still Image