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04 Vaccination Party on Yangtze Steamer Three rows of tightly packed missionary men, women and children pose with their sleeves rolled up while having their smallpox vaccinations on board a steamer on the Lower Yangtze. One man appears to be having a dose of chlorophorm to put him out during the vaccination. Most of the others are smiling proudly for having gotten their shots.
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03 Women's Missionary Society Party Aboard the Empress of Japan, 1910 Members of the Canadian Women's Missionary Society (WMS) on Board the Empress of Japan enroute to begin their missionary careers in West China. Top row: Misses V. Shuttleworth and Mabel E. Thompson. Middle top row: Miss Mary Totten Smith. Middle lower row: Misses Alice L. Estabrook and Brooke? (could this be Miss M.L. Perkins?). Bottom row: Misses Olive M. Turner and Ethel McPherson. Miss Perkins was an unmarried female missionary sponsored by the Canadian Methodist Mission while all the others were sponsored by the Women's Missionary Society. Records are not clear as to the identity of the woman in the middle lower row.
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02 Canadian Missionaries Aboard the Empress of Japan, 1910 Six Canadian missionary couples on board the Empress of Japan enroute to begin their missionary careers in West China. Top row: Rev. Thomas Bateman, Dr. David McKinley, Alfred Johns, Fred Abrey, Gordon Jones. Middle row: Mrs. Elsie Abrey, Mrs. Myrtle Johns, Dr. Omar Kilborn, Dr. Retta Kilborn, Mrs. Susie Mabel McKinley. Front row: Mrs. Clara Jones, Roland Kenneth Kilborn, Mrs. Alice Bateman. The Kilborns are the only seasoned missionaries in the group.
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Mrytle & Fred Johns Wedding Full Portrait Full figure portrait of Alfred and Myrtle Madge Johns on the occasion of their wedding at UsborneTwp, near Exeter, ON.
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Mrytle & Fred Johns Wedding Portrait Upper body portrait of Alfred and Myrtle Madge Johns on the occasion of their wedding at UsborneTwp, near Exeter, ON.
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Alicia Morey Graham with Baby Panda Alicia Morey Graham standing on a lawn at WCUU holding a panda that might be Pandora.
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Jean Graham and Anne Kennard with Baby Panda D.C. Graham's daughter, Jean, and Anne Kennard sitting on a lawn at the WCUU campus, holding a panda that might be Pandora.
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D.C. Graham XGOY Panda Broadcast D.C. Graham and John Tee Van seated across a table at the XGOY "Voice of China" radio studio, talking about the pandas.
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D.C. Graham Talking to Reporters, Chungking David Crockett Graham speaking to reporters. He is seen in side view surrounded by a group of people, one of whom appears to have a camera. Behind Graham on the right, the man with the hat is John TeeVan from the Bronx Zoo. The woman facing Graham is Annalee Whitmore. She was a reporter then, but later became publicity manager for the United China Relief which was soliciting aid for China in the war with Japan.
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Madame Chiang with Baby Panda Madame Chiang, wife of Chiang Kai-Shek, playing with a panda sources by David Crockett Graham.
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David Crockett Graham, John Tee Van, and a Panda D.C. Graham and Mr. Tee Van watching a panda in its wooden cage.
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D.C. Graham and Mr. Tee Van with Panda D.C. Graham and Mr. Tee Van letting a panda out of its wooden cage.
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Workers Unloading a Panda Image of several workers unloading a crate which a panda is held in.
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D.C. Graham with a Panda, 1941 David Crockett Graham playing with the panda.
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Graham in Chengdu after Panda Hunt David Crockett Graham in a compound in Chengdu after returning from the panda hunt. During the return trip Graham had been severely ill and lost a lot of weight.
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Bert Rape with Panda Bert Rape playing with a panda on a field of grass. The two pandas stayed at Rape's home during their stop over in Chungking before their journey to New York.
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Magistrate and Others with Panda Magistrate and gatekeeper with a panda. The magistrate is on the left behind a small child and in front of a woman. A monk is on the steps in robes. There are two other men to the right.
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Wenchuan Magistrate Family Image of the Wenchuan Magistrate with his pregnant wife and young child. The magistrate is holding a cane, and there is an officer without shoes in the background.
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Altar of the Wa-Ssu Hunters Flat stone with pelts and pieces of cloth beside it. An empty glass bottle and burning incense are at the foot of the altar.
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Wa-Ssu Hunter Worship Wa-Ssu Hunter worshiping the hunter's god before going out to hunt. There is a flat stone with Chinese characters on it. The published version is cropped.
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Wa-Ssu Hunters and Dogs This portrait shows six Wa-Ssu panda hunters in their Indigenous style dress and turbans with rifles. There are two dogs of different breeds that they use for hunting pandas. In the published version, the image is flipped horizontally.
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1941 Graham's Giant Panda Hunt After the death in the Bronx Zoo of Pandora and Pan in 1941 and 1940, respectively, officials at the zoo began to search for another pair of Giant Pandas to replace them. On June 17, 1941, Dr. Frank Price, on behalf of the Chinese government, asked David Crockett Graham to procure them. As the first diplomatic gift of pandas from the ruling party of China to a foreign nation, Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Soong Mei-ling) presented them to the American people as a symbol of solidarity between the two nations.