The Snapshots in Time Collection

Night/Underexposed Street Scene with Numbered Doorway '18', China, 1930s

Night/Underexposed Street Scene with Numbered Doorway '18', China, 1930s

A dimly lit street scene from the pre-WWII China collection shows a numbered doorway ('18') on a stone building, likely photographed in a Chinese port city visited by U.S. Navy personnel during the 1930s. The extreme darkness of this frame is characteristic of the era's low-light photography or subsequent negative degradation. Project: 218177