The Snapshots in Time Collection

Shipboard View of Chinese Port with Mast, Cargo Hook, and Colonial Buildings, 1930s

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