The Snapshots in Time Collection
Album Page: 'The Harbor of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies,' with Inset Street Scene, c. 1900s-1910s
A hillside view of the harbor at St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies, with a small U.S. Navy vessel anchored offshore below the town of Charlotte Amalie. The Danish colonial designation places this photograph before 1917, when the islands were purchased by the United States and renamed the U.S. Virgin Islands. A smaller inset snapshot of a tropical roadside scene documents a shore-liberty outing during the same port call, part of the ship's extended Caribbean cruise recorded throughout this album. Project: 218602