Original 1947 Associated Press Wire Photo depicting Chinese Communist soldiers captured by Nationalist forces during the Chinese Civil War. The attached AP caption identifies the men as part of approximately 2,000 Communist prisoners transported to Shanghai, China, aboard a ship from Hulutao in Northeast China. According to the caption, the vessel was quarantined upon arrival because of a cholera outbreak aboard. A striking historical image documenting postwar China and the ongoing conflict between Communist and Nationalist forces. From the archive of a Pittsburgh-area newspaper. Measures approximately 6½" x 9". Exhibits age-related wear, toning, handling marks, and mounting remnants from long-term newspaper archive storage. Please see photos.
