KSG Nursing Class

KSG Nursing Class

Hawai’i
Kamehameha School for Girls
Nursing
Ida May Pope
Westernisation
Education

This is a black and white image of dimensions 1200x879 depicting Hawaiian girls in Miss Ida May Pope’s nursing class at Kamehameha School for Girls, first established in 1897. The school was established by Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop’s will to ensure the survival of Hawaiian people and culture. Bernice recognised the decline of her people during her lifetime and saw education as key to survival in the transformed Hawai’i. Pope played an important role in educating and training girls and in some accounts, is referred to as a ‘mother’ figure. Women’s training consisted of household requirements and some skills for work, however, the main focus was creating a woman apt in the home. The image appears staged and shows the girls dressed in white, in a modernised environment, epitomising the Western view of civilisation. This connects to Westernisation of Hawaiian women and the assimilation of the two predominant cultures present.

Not sure as it is not specified on both the publisher’s site and the owner’s site.
However, taken in the Kamehameha Schools, Honolulu, Hawai’i

Images of Old Hawai’i

http://imagesofoldhawaii.com/ida-may-pope/#jp-carousel-6525

Circa. 1897 – there was no specific date, however using the context of the other images in the series and when the school was established, it can be inferred that the image is from this year.

Ameerah Abood

Kamehameha Schools Archives, v9 38A
http://gallery.ksbe.edu/archives/public/The-Historic-campus-at-Kaiwiula-1887-1940/Kamehameha-School-for-Girls/v9_38A-KSG-nursing-class

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Visual - photograph

19th century Hawai'i