Two Girls and a Boy with a Panda

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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
Geonames: Chengdu, Sichuan; West China Union University
Event: 1941 Graham's Giant Panda Hunt
Original Format: Photographic Print
Relation: Map of the West China Union University Campus; Bill Willmott Petting a Panda; Dryden Phelps Holding a Panda
Source: Cory Willmott
Provenance: Leslie Earl and Mary Katharine Willmott, to Richard Edward Willmott; scanned by Elizabeth Willmott.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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

Item sets: Willmott Family Archives

Media: WFC_112_LEW Bill willmott and girls w panda.tif

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