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During the three centuries after their first settlement, the Virgin Islands were captured and held by six European nations before they were finally purchased from Denmark in 1917 by the United States.

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During the three centuries after their first settlement, the Virgin Islands were captured and held by six European nations before they were finally purchased from Denmark in 1917 by the United States.
Collection

Lands of the Caribbean: the Canal Zone, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, and the Virgin Islands

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1926
Place: New York, NY
Publisher: Doubleday
Issuance: monographic
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
Shelf locator: Sc E 00-1347
Topics
Caribbean Area -- Description and travel
Cannons
Caribbean Americans
Virgin Islands of the United States
Genres
Photographs
Type of Resource
Text
Still image
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 45503124
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b14719974
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 27486340-c6dd-012f-3149-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1926: Issued
  • 2023: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "During the three centuries after their first settlement, the Virgin Islands were captured and held by six European nations before they were finally purchased from Denmark in 1917 by the United States." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1926. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-890e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "During the three centuries after their first settlement, the Virgin Islands were captured and held by six European nations before they were finally purchased from Denmark in 1917 by the United States." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 27, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-890e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. (1926). During the three centuries after their first settlement, the Virgin Islands were captured and held by six European nations before they were finally purchased from Denmark in 1917 by the United States. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-890e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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During the three centuries after their first settlement, the Virgin Islands were captured and held by six European nations before they were finally purchased from Denmark in 1917 by the United States.