The Snapshots in Time Collection
U.S. Navy Sailor with Touring Automobile in Pre-WWII China, 1930s
A U.S. Navy sailor poses behind the wheel of a vintage touring automobile during shore liberty in China, sometime in the 1930s. Photographs like this one document the peacetime presence of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in Chinese treaty ports during the interwar years, before the outbreak of World War II transformed the region. Project: 218183