The Snapshots in Time Collection
Gallery: Part 2
Photographed from the decks of American warships on the pre-war China Station, these 1930s images survey gunboat forecastles, crowded treaty-port harbors, steam launches, and sailors gathered in dress whites beside the main battery. Together they preserve the everyday texture of Asiatic Fleet service in the uneasy years before the Pacific War.
Coastal Village Viewed from Shipboard, China or Pacific, 1930s
Mediterranean Coastal Town Viewed from a U.S. Navy Ship, Interwar Period
Steam Launch Alongside with Passengers, U.S. Navy China Station, Pre-WWII (1930s)
Terraced Harbor Town Viewed from Shipboard, US Navy Pre-WWII Asiatic Fleet Deployment, c. 1930s
View Through Ship's Rigging Toward Chinese Harbor Waterfront, 1930s U.S. Navy Photograph
Ruins at Pompeii (Faded Color Slide), Interwar Naval Officer's Travel Album, c. 1930s
Sailor Seated in Ship's Ventilator Cowl, U.S. Navy Asiatic Fleet, China Station, 1930s
U.S. Navy Sailor Aboard Ship in China, Pre-WWII Asiatic Fleet/Yangtze Patrol Era, 1930s
Harbor Scene, China, 1930s (US Navy China Pre-WWII Collection)
Harbor Breakwater Lighthouse, China Coast, U.S. Navy Pre-WWII China Station Photograph Collection, 1930s
View of Pompeii Ruins Through Doorway, Featuring the Dancing Faun Statue, Casa del Fauno -- 1930s Navy Family Travel Album
Sailors on Deck Beside Watertight Hatch, U.S. Navy Asiatic Fleet, China Station, 1930s
Forward Deck of U.S. Navy Gunboat Viewed from the Mast, China Station, 1930s
Waterfront Clubhouse Viewed from U.S. Navy Vessel, China, 1930s
Distant Vessel Silhouette on Horizon, US Navy Asiatic Fleet Collection, China, 1930s (Underexposed Negative)
U.S. Navy Sailors and Local Men Beside Automobile, Colonial Port City, 1930s Asiatic Station
U.S. Navy Sailors at Deck Gun Aboard Warship, China/Pacific, 1930s
Small Naval Vessel Underway, China/Pacific Waters, 1930s
Overhead View of Ship's Deck and Ventilators, US Asiatic Fleet, China, 1930s
Two Airmen Conversing Before a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, WWII China-Burma-India or Pacific Theater
Underexposed Photograph of U.S. Navy Aircraft/Vessel Detail, China, 1930s
Faded Waterscape with Distant Vessel, U.S. Navy China Station, 1930s (Pre-WWII)
Double-Exposed Photograph: Anchored Steam Vessel in Chinese Harbor with Superimposed Portrait of Two Women, circa 1930s
Unprocessed Negative Scan: Silhouetted Figure and Illuminated Pole/Mast, Pre-WWII China (US Navy Collection)
Coastal Headland and Harbor View, U.S. Navy China/Pacific Photograph Collection, 1930s
U.S. Navy Sailor with Costumed Children at Colonial-Era Building, Pre-WWII Pacific Port Visit
U.S. Navy Vessel View of a Mediterranean Harbor Town, Interwar Period (c. 1930s)
Shipboard View of Chinese Port with Mast, Cargo Hook, and Colonial Buildings, 1930s
U.S. Navy Sailors on Deck Near Main Battery Guns, China Station, Pre-WWII Era
U.S. Navy Gunboat and Seaplane at Anchor, China Station, c. 1930s
Sailors Atop Twin Deck Gun Mount in Harbor, US Navy Asiatic Fleet, 1930s
US Navy Sailors and Civilian Women in Small Boat, Viewed from Ship's Deck, China, 1930s
Distant Harbor City View from Shipboard, 1930s Pacific/China Naval Cruise
Doorway with Posted Notice and Numbered Plaque, Overseas Port Street Scene, 1930s
U.S. Navy Sailor with Costumed Children at a Colonial-Era Building, Likely Ceylon, 1930s
Hillside Mediterranean Port Town, Viewed from Shipboard — U.S. Navy 'China Station' Album, 1930s
Three U.S. Navy Sailors in Dress Whites on Deck, Pre-WWII Asiatic Fleet, 1930s China Station
View of Harbor and Striped Lighthouse from Ship's Deck, US Navy Asiatic Station, 1930s
Night/Underexposed Street Scene with Numbered Doorway '18', China, 1930s
Stone Guardian Lion on Garden Wall, China, 1930s
US Navy Sailors on Ship's Deck, China/Pacific Station, 1930s
U.S. Navy Sailors Aboard a River Boat, China, 1930s
Shipboard Scene with Chinese Worker Near Ship's Stack, U.S. Navy China Station, 1930s
Dockside Warehouse with Dutch 'Brand Deur' (Fire Door) Signage, Netherlands East Indies, 1930s (U.S. Navy China/Pacific Cruise Album)
Dockworkers Loading Baskets Aboard a Chinese Junk, Pre-WWII China
Loading Provisions Aboard U.S. Navy Vessel, China Station, Pre-WWII (Degraded Negative Scan)
U.S. Navy Sailors on Deck with Stowed Gear, China Station, 1930s
Chinese Dockworkers Loading Cargo, U.S. Navy China Station, 1930s (Pre-WWII)
U.S. Navy Vessel's Bow and Anchor Chain with Chinese Waterfront Warehouses in Background, 1930s