The Snapshots in Time Collection
Overhead View of Ship's Deck Rigging and Crew, U.S. Navy China Station, 1930s
A dramatic overhead view of a U.S. Navy vessel's deck rigging, photographed from the ship's mast during service in Chinese waters in the 1930s. Images like this document the U.S. Navy's China Station and Yangtze Patrol, which maintained an American naval presence in China in the years before World War II. Project: 218176