The Snapshots in Time Collection
Gallery: Part 2
Along the China coast in the 1930s and 1940s, these negatives capture junks under sail, dockside crowds, ocean liners on the transpacific run, and the Asiatic Fleet destroyer USS Pope in Chinese waters. Nationalist sentries, armed shipboard defenders, and bamboo-scaffolded construction mark treaty ports caught between rapid modernization and the approach of war.
Ocean Liner Passing a Volcanic Island, En Route to China
Warship Bow and Pagoda-Style Superstructure Moored at a Chinese Treaty Port, with Automobiles in Foreground, c. 1930s
Passengers in Costume for a Shipboard 'Crossing the Line' Equator Ceremony
Woman Beside a Vintage Automobile with Bamboo Scaffolding Construction in the Background, China
Bomb-Damaged Building Ruins, Wartime China
Young Man in Steel Helmet and Webbing Equipment Aboard a Vessel, Wartime China Coast
Close-Up Study of Barbed Wire Defensive Barrier, Wartime China
Distant Vessel at Sea, Faded and Fogged Negative, China Coast
Crowded Cargo Deck with Chinese Passengers and Ship's Derrick, Coastal China
U.S. Navy Sailor Beside a Cast-Iron Postbox, Tsingtao (Qingdao), China
Barbed-Wire Street Barricade in a Chinese Commercial District, Wartime China
Railway Worker on Narrow-Gauge Track Through Logged Terrain, China, World War II Era
USS Pope (DD-218), Asiatic Fleet Destroyer, in Chinese Waters
Crowd Gathers Dockside at a Chinese Port Wharf, WWII Era
Uniformed Serviceman Beside a Streamlined Coupe, Late 1930s
Two Young Women with School Folders, Mid-1930s
Logging Truck Hauling Old-Growth Timber, Pacific Coast Highway
Ship's Officer in Dress Uniform on Steamship Deck, China Route Negatives
Ship's Bow Approaching a Volcanic Island, Transpacific Voyage
Chinese Junk at Anchor in Harbor, China, WWII Era
Distant Waterfront Town Viewed from Shipboard
Double-Exposed Street Scene with Rickshaw and Steel Truss Bridge, China
Young Woman at the Ship's Rail, Volcanic Coastline Beyond
Five Women Sharing Refreshments in a City Alley
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Ocean Liner Moored at Dockside, Lifeboats Swung Out
Family Portrait Aboard Ocean Liner Deck, China Negatives Collection
Chinese Junk Under Way, Viewed from Ship's Deck
Woman at Maritime Monument, China (German Family Collection), c. 1938-1942
Two Women at an Ornamental Ship's-Prow Fountain
Girl on the Running Board of a 1929 Ford Model A, Oregon
Elderly Man and Boy at a Tibetan Buddhist Temple, Western China
Young Woman at the Window of a Vintage Sedan, Construction Site Behind
Uniformed Officer and Companion on a Residential Street
Chinese Junks Under Sail in Coastal Haze, China, c. 1930s-1940s
Group Portrait of Expatriate Families at a Pier Warehouse, China, 1930s
Woman with Five Young Girls on Residential Lawn, United States (mislabeled 'China Negatives'), c. 1938-1945
Ship's Officer on Deck of Ocean Liner, Pacific Crossing to China, 1930s
Coastal Boulevard with Sandbagged Checkpoint, Treaty Port China, Late 1930s
Chinese Nationalist Army Sentries at Coastal Guard Post, Late 1930s