The Snapshots in Time Collection

Dockside Warehouse Viewed Through Ship's Porthole, Netherlands East Indies, 1930s (U.S. Navy China/Pacific Album)

Dockside Warehouse Viewed Through Ship's Porthole, Netherlands East Indies, 1930s (U.S. Navy China/Pacific Album)

Viewed through the porthole of a U.S. Navy vessel, this 1930s photograph captures a dockside warehouse in the Netherlands East Indies, marked with Dutch fire-safety signage. Images like this document the routine port calls made by ships of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet throughout Southeast Asia in the years before World War II. Project: 218181