The Snapshots in Time Collection
Dockside Warehouse with Dutch 'Brand Deur' (Fire Door) Signage, Netherlands East Indies, 1930s (U.S. Navy China/Pacific Cruise Album)
A U.S. Navy sailor's snapshot from a 1930s Pacific deployment captures a dockside warehouse in a Dutch colonial port, its sliding fire door marked 'Brand 29 Deur' in Dutch. Pedestrians in tropical Western dress pass by, offering a glimpse of everyday colonial port life in the years before the Pacific War. Project: 218177