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Documents relating to the Danish West Indies, 1655-1819.
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Documents relating to the Danish West Indies, 1655-1819Creator/Contributor:
Pinart, A. L. (Alphonse Louis), 1852-1911, collector.Abstract:
Originals and Pinart transcripts of correspondence and documents mainly relating to the Danish government's rule of the islands
of St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John, with provisos for the regulation of Negroes and their conversion to Christianity,
and the recording of various deeds in the island of St. Croix. There are a few documents from the British rule, 1807-1819,
chiefly passports. Box 3 consists of Waldemar Westergaard's card catalog of Danish West Indies material.
Typed transcripts of various documents and notes.
Date:
1655 (issued)Subject:
United States Virgin Islands -- History -- Early works to 1800Îles Vierges américaines -- Histoire -- Ouvrages avant 1800
United States Virgin Islands
Note:
Documents were filmed prior to current arrangement.
RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Also available on microfilm.
Materials gathered for H.H. Bancroft by Alphonse Pinart. CU-BANC
Finding aid available: Filed under "Danish West Indies."
For list of contents of microfilm, see microfilm notebooks at Reference Desk, Bancroft Library.
Documents relating to the Danish West Indies, 1655-1819, BANC MSS Z-A 1, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Type:
History.Sources.
Physical Description:
print
microfilm reel
3 boxes, 1 oversize folder
4 microfilm reels : negative (Rich. 404:19 [reel 1]; 119:8-9 [reels 2-3]; 404:20 [reel 4]) and positive
Language:
English
Origin:
No place, unknown, or undeterminedCopyright Note:
RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC