The Snapshots in Time Collection
US Navy Sailors on Liberty, Riding Rickshaws Through a Chinese Treaty Port, 1930s
US Navy sailors from the Asiatic Fleet enjoy shore leave in a Chinese treaty port during the 1930s, riding in rickshaws along a tree-lined boulevard flanked by European colonial-style architecture. Images like this one document the routine of American naval presence in China in the years before World War II, when US warships regularly called at ports such as Shanghai. Project: 218178