A young man gazes calmly from this hand-tinted studio portrait, the soft applied color and careful retouching typical of 1940s commercial photography studios. Portraits like this one were treasured keepsakes during World War II, often taken before a young serviceman shipped out and kept by family members or sweethearts as a tangible connection to a loved one serving far away, in this case within the China-Burma-India theater archive to which this photograph belongs. Project: 218374