The Snapshots in Time Collection
U.S. Navy Sailors Posing at a Temple Complex with Guardian Statues, Southeast Asia/Dutch East Indies, c. 1930s
Two U.S. Navy sailors in dress whites pose beside a temple complex guarded by carved stone figures, likely in the Dutch East Indies, during the 1930s. Photographs like this one document the shore-leave travels of Asiatic Fleet personnel in the years before World War II, when American warships regularly called at ports throughout China and Southeast Asia. Project: 218176