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• Tire Problems on the Burma Road
  The driver of John Stinson's truck uses a lug wrench to fix the rear passenger tire after it has broken down. The baggage on the top of the truck is covered with tarps made from yak hides.
• Frequent Breakdowns on the Burma Road
  One of the eight trucks in the Allen-Stinson convey is stopped for repairs. One can see the license plate and the Chevrolet logo on the truck. A man stands half out of the frame to the left.
• The Road from Kunming to Chungking
  At a tight curve in the Burma Road, Stinson takes a photo over the flimsy wooden railing at the side of the road. Down in the valley, one can see the road descending alongside terraced fields.
• Stewart Allen Brings Up the Rear
  Five of the eight trucks in Allen's and Stinson's care have stopped, probably at a roadside restaurant (note the thatched roof in the left foreground). Stinson has climbed a rocky path to take the photo looking down upon the scene. On the curve of the road, a flimsy railing separates vehicles from the steep mountainside beyond it.
• Twenty-four Switchbacks
  Landscape scenery showing a few hairpin turns on the Burma Road. This section of the road is known as The Stilwell Twenty-Four due to the number of switchbacks or hairpin turns going up the mountain. General Joseph Stilwell must have used that road when he led the OSS during WWII. A large section of it is currently preserved as a heritage site.
• Horses Ford a River
  Horses are disembarking from a boat after crossing a river. They are wearing saddles and baskets over their muzzles, suggesting that they will be used for military purposes rather than as pack animals. Most likely, they are not part of the Stinson and Allen convoy, but rather encountered along the way.
• Fording the River 2
  A truck with tarps made from yak skins covering the baggage on top is on a barge crossing a river. Many men are using a huge oar to propel the barge across the river. A road and buildings can be seen on the mountainside in the background.
• Fording the River 3
  Stewart Allen stands on the deck of a barge with one of their eight trucks on it. The baggage on top of the truck is covered with tarps made from yak skins. There are many workmen on the barge, one of whom is using a pole to push the barge away from the shallow water near the shore. There is a canoe-like boat pulled up alongside the barge.
• Fording the River 1
  Two men in the foreground hold a rope to keep the barge steady as five other men are on the barge to help load a truck onto it. The truck is covered with a tarp.
• John Stinson with One of the Drivers
  John Stinson poses with one of the drivers and another man in front of one of the eight trucks in his and Stewart Allen's convoy. One of the men sits on the front end of the truck. The baggage on top of the truck is covered with tarps made from yak skins.
• John Stinson and Stewart Allen with Five Lorries
  Five of the eight trucks in Allen's and Stinson's care travel in a convoy along a dirt road next to a lake or river. The baggage on the tops of the trucks are covered with tarps made from yak skins. The drivers have stopped at a roadside restaurant for a lunch break.
• Loading the Trucks in Kunming
  Scene at the railway depot in Kunming where John Stinson and Steward Allen are transferring the baggage from the train onto the trucks that they have hired. One man sits atop a truck to load boxes onto the truck top. A great pile of wooden boxes awaits loading. They hired altogether eight trucks to carry all the missionary baggage and supplies in their care.
• Train trestle from Hanoi to Kunming
  Taken from the train on the French Indochina railway as it crosses a high bridge across a valley.
• Customs in Haiphong
  Missionary baggage in the care of Stewart Allen and John Stinson at the customs house with two men, one in a pith helmet. In the foreground one of the boxes is addressed to Miss Astrid Peterson, an American Baptist missionary stationed at Suifu (Yibin), Sichuan.
• Stewart Allen Guarding the Missionary Cargo in Haiphong
  Stewart Allen sits on top of a large box labelled "Chungking" amidst many wooden boxes of which he and John Stinson are in charge. The boxes and trunks are in front of a large brick building with columns. Another man is behind Allen wearing a pith helmet.
• Luggage on Board Ship from Hong Kong to Haiphong
  Three men are working with the baggage on board a ship. Several large cargo trunks are in the foreground, the closest of which bears the name "Stinson."
• Allen-Stinson Burma Road Trip, 1938
  In the spring of 1938, shortly after Japan invaded Shanghai, Dr. Stewart Allen and Rev. John Stinson were charged with escorting all the missionary baggage and supplies that had been stuck in Shanghai. They took the French Indochina route into Yunnan and then the Burma Road to Chongqing, with adventures along the way.
• Woodblock Print - The Colossal Conceit of Missionaries
  The image shows a massive figure drawn in the style of Chinese temple statues. He is wielding a sword and presiding over what appears to be a court. In a much smaller scale, a man with a doctor's bag holds the page of a book open on the desk of the court. The symbolic meaning is up for interpretation.
• Woodblock Print - Off to School
  A family consisting of a mother, two sons and a daughter walk alongside a stone wall. The oldest boy is wearing a scout uniform, an indication of his membership in the Guomindang youth club, while his younger brother wears the zhongshan suit first popularized by Sun Yatsen. The mother and daughter wear scholars' gowns, showing their status as "New Women," an image promoted by the GMD.
• Woodblock Print - New Dawn though the Moon Gate
  This print shows an extended family consisting of grandmother, son, daughter-in-law and three children sitting in front of a circular "moon gate." The grandmother and the baby are looking away from the gate, while the rest of the family are looking through it. The scene that appears before them is a countryside with a small cottage in the mid-ground and a rising sun in the distance. The grandmother wears the women's traditional jacket with trousers, while the son, daughter-in-law and child wear scholars' gowns.
• Woodblock Print - Threshing Rice
  Four men working in a rice field - two of them are tying the rice into sheaves, while the other two are threshing the sheaves in a conical wooden device for that purpose. They wear only cotton trousers.
• Myrtle Madge and Another Student Practicing Dentistry
  Two dental nurses pose with two child patients in the dental laboratory at the School of Dentistry at the University of Toronto where Alfred Johns and Myrtle Madge met. Myrtle (right) uses a set of pliers to pull a child's tooth. The other nurse wraps a bandage around a child's head, simulating a procedure after surgery. Bottles with labels sit in rows on shelves in the background. A large book lays open on the table.
• Unidentified WCUU Building
  Two or three story building on the WCUU campus with the "Oriental-Western" style of architecture.
• Laying the Cornerstone of the Canadian School in West China, 1918
  A large group of missionaries pose on a platform that appears to be the beginning of scaffolding. British, Canadian and American flags are hung behind them. Another unidentified flag hangs at the front of the platform. The caption explains that this was a ceremony for laying the cornerstone of the Canadian School in West China.
• Vandeman Memorial Hall, WCUU, 1920
  The Vandeman Memorial Hall is a large three-story building in the "Oriental-Western" style of architecture typical of the WCUU campus. There is a small pagoda-like tower projecting from the roof above the front door. The building is enclosed by fences of both brick and bamboo.