This striking image is the result of an accidental double exposure, layering a portrait of two smiling young women over a photograph of an anchored steam vessel in a Chinese harbor. Taken in the 1930s, likely by U.S. Navy personnel or their families stationed on the China Station prior to World War II, the photograph captures both the everyday technical mishaps of amateur photography and a fleeting glimpse of interwar naval life in the Far East. Project: 218177