The Snapshots in Time Collection

Faded Waterscape with Distant Vessel, U.S. Navy China Station, 1930s (Pre-WWII)

Faded Waterscape with Distant Vessel, U.S. Navy China Station, 1930s (Pre-WWII)

A faded 1930s photographic negative from the U.S. Navy's pre-WWII China Station collection, showing a hazy river or coastal scene with a small vessel visible in the distance. Images like this document the routine patrol duty of American sailors serving with the Asiatic Fleet and Yangtze Patrol in China during the interwar years, a period of growing tension in the Pacific prior to World War II. Project: 218177