The Snapshots in Time Collection
Double-Exposed Snapshot of Touring Car and Chinese Street Scene, 1930s
A double-exposed amateur snapshot from a U.S. Navy sailor's personal album, circa 1930s, showing a touring automobile parked before a row of traditional Chinese tiled-roof buildings. Overlapping imagery of naval personnel and local figures reflects the informal, unedited nature of personal photography kept by American servicemen stationed in China's treaty ports during the interwar 'China Station' era, prior to the outbreak of the Pacific War. Project: 218181