The Snapshots in Time Collection

Interior of a Chinese Textile/Embroidery Shop, WWII China-Burma-India Theater

Interior of a Chinese Textile/Embroidery Shop, WWII China-Burma-India Theater

A candid snapshot from the China-Burma-India Theater captures everyday commerce in wartime China: a shop hung with embroidered silk panels, its keepers and customers going about their business as an unidentified passerby crosses the frame. Photographs like this, taken by American servicemen off duty, preserved glimpses of local life alongside the war itself. Project: 218381