Dryden Phelps Holding a Panda
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Title
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Dryden Phelps Holding a Panda
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Caption
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"Professor Dryden Phelps found the panda quite tame when it arrived in Chengtu, West China, before it started on its long journey to America. He named it Pandamonium!"
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Identifier
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WFC_113
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Description
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Dryden Phelps is standing in the Graham's yard holding Pandah, who is on a leash. Dryden has clips around his trousers, which suggests he was riding a bicycle. A thatched-roof pavilion can be seen in the background.
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Commentary
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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. Dryden Phelps was an American Baptist missionary who was staying with the Willmotts on "Canadian Row" while his wife taught at the Canadian School in West China, which had moved to Renshou to keep the children safe from the Japanese bombs that targeted Chengdu. On this day, Dryden, with Earl and Bill Willmott, probably rode bicycles across campus to "Baptist Row" to visit the pandas.
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Creator
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Leslie Earl Willmott
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Date Created
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Between 1941-09-30 and 1941-11-6
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Original Format
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Photographic Print
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Source
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Cory Willmott
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Provenance
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Leslie Earl and Mary Katharine Willmott, to Richard Edward Willmott; scanned by Elizabeth Willmott.
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Publisher
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SIUE
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Record Date
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2026-01-10
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Contributor
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Cory Willmott; Elizabeth Willmott
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Type
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Still Image
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References
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Davis, D. Dwight. The Giant Panda: A Morphological Study of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Fieldiana Zoological Memoirs, Vol. 3. Chicago Natural History Museum, 1964, p. 32.
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Earl Willmott News Note #181, Chengdu, Nov. 12, 1941 (Willmott Family Archives)
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Published In
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David Crockett Graham. "The Panda Comes to America." Missions 33, no. 3 (1942), p. 149.
Graham Daughters with Snow-Covered Pavilion
Map of the West China Union University Campus
Bill Willmott Petting a Panda
Two Girls and a Boy with a Panda
