This is an original photograph of the Transfer Ceremonies held on March 31, 1917 in the garden of what is now the Legislature building in St. Thomas. On this date the Danish West Indies were transferred to American jurisdiction and renamed, the Virgin Islands of the United States. The cost of the purchase was $25,000,000 in gold.
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