Package from Home

Title: Package from Home
Caption: Bryant Lane Parcel on Arrival
Identifier: WFA_137
Alternative Identifier: p. 6
Description: A twisted and torn parcel lays on the pavement next to a potted plant.
Commentary: Mail service was not always reliable between North America and Sichuan. This was a package that Katharine's mother Carrie Dodds Geyer sent to her. Katharine sent the photo back in a letter to show her the outcome.
Date Created: 1922
Location: Chengdu, Sichuan
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1815286/chengdu.html
Original Format: Photographic Print
Is Part Of: Donald Earl Willmott's Blue Brocade Album
Source: Cory Willmott
Provenance: Passed down from K & E Willmott to Don Willmott, and then to Cory Willmott. Digitized in 2008 by Elizabeth Willmott.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2026-02-17
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image

Item sets: Willmott Family Archives; Donald Earl Willmott Blue Brocade Album