[Chiang Kai-shek with Savoia-Marchetti airplane]

Photograph of General Chiang Kai-shek disembarking from a Savoia-Marchetti airplane (fuselage number I-ABMO) at an airfield in Hankow, China, August 1938. Photo from album page 6.

Inscription on album page: "Generalissimo Chiang leaves the gift Savoia in Hankow and goes on to the Chengtu in Boeing. Aug. 1938."

Part of the Julius A. Barr photograph album containing three hundred and thirty-nine (339) black-and-white photographs, circa 1934-1937. The photos cover Barr's time in China as a personal pilot for both Zhang Xueliang (also known as the "Young Marshal" and "Peter Chang") and General Chiang Kai-shek.