This mid-20th-century photograph captures a leisurely afternoon at the Cyrene Club, a poolside social venue believed to be in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Modernist architecture, a thatched cabana, and uniformed staff reflect the cosmopolitan social life of Southeast Asian cities during the late colonial and early independence period, offering a rare civilian counterpoint to the region's better-known wartime imagery of the following decade. Project: 218694