Empire Day Track and Field Games

Title: Empire Day Track and Field Games
Caption: Emp. Day 1925
Identifier: WFA_144
Description: Dozens of men, women and children stand on the sports field in front of "Canadian Row" watching some sort of game or race. Many of the adults wear pith helmets or straw boaters.
Commentary: Empire Day was celebrated throughout the British empire on Queen Victoria's birthday, May 24th. "Canadian Row" was the double row of missionary houses on the WCUU campus.
Date Created: 1925-05-24
Location: WCUU, Chengdu, Sichuan
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/12718447/ackerman-clock-tower-huaxi-campus.html
Original Format: Photographic Print
Relation: Empire Day Audience; Empire Day Salute
Source: Cory Willmott; Qi Yanan; Luo Junhe
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

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