The Snapshots in Time Collection
Shipboard View of Chinese Port with Mast, Cargo Hook, and Colonial Buildings, 1930s
A 1930s snapshot taken from the deck of a U.S. Navy vessel in a Chinese port, showing shipboard rigging and cargo-handling gear in the foreground with the colonial-era buildings of a foreign concession district visible ashore. Photographs like this document the U.S. Navy's peacetime presence in China prior to World War II. Project: 218177