The Snapshots in Time Collection
U.S. Navy Sailor Playing Guitar Among Anchor Chain, China Station, 1930s
A U.S. Navy sailor takes a break to play guitar amid coils of massive anchor chain, likely aboard a vessel of the Asiatic Fleet stationed in China during the 1930s. Photographs like this capture the everyday rhythms of shipboard life in the years before World War II drew the Navy into global conflict. Project: 218178