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Chinese cruiser Zhaohe, circa late 1920s or early 1930s	Chinese protected cruiser Haichen, China, circa 1920s

Chinese protected cruiser Hairong, China, 1929	Drawing of Chinese Navy river gunboat Minquan, date unknown

Emperor Showa reviewing troops, circa 1928-1930	F3B-1 (foreground), F6C-3 Hawk (center), and T4M-1 (background) aircraft on the flight deck of USS Lexington, 1929

French cruiser La Motte-Picquet, 1929	General Government Building, Keijo (now Seoul), Korea, 1929

Gymnasium and theatre at the USMC base at Quantico, Virginia, United States, circa 1929	Haruna in harbor with other warships, circa 1929-31

Horst Wessel and German Nazi SA men in Nürnberg, Germany, 1929	Horst Wessel with members of the Nazi 34. SA-Sturm unit, Berlin, Germany, 1929

Hospital at the USMC base at Quantico, Virginia, United States, circa 1929	Interior of the library at USMC base at Quantico, Virginia, United States, circa 1929

Kongo just prior to her 1929 reconstruction	L2 prototype aircraft, late 1920s

Midship view of Kongo, early 1929; note searchlight tower between the first and second smokestacks and large smoke deflector on the forward stack	Midship view of Kongo, opposite angle, just prior to her 1929 reconstruction

Museum ship Oregon (right side of photo) near the Broadway Bridge in Portland, Oregon, United States, 1929	Portrait of Heinrich Himmler, 1929