On March 31, 1917, the United States took possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renamed the territory the United States Virgin Islands.
The Opening History aggregation contains two digital collections with a focus on the history of Virgin Islands:Virgin Islands Funeral Memorial Booklets and Virgin Islands Historical Photographs.
The photograph below, courtesy of The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) Libraries, Virgin Islands Historical Photographs collection, shows the Virgin Islands’ old waterfront in 1920s.
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