Blad 84 uit Stamboek van de leerlingen der Koloniale School voor Meisjes en Vrouwen te 's-Gravenhage deel II (1930-1949) Possibly 1936 - 1939

This is page 84 from the register of students at the Colonial School for Girls and Women in The Hague, dating from between 1930 and 1949. While the artist is anonymous, each entry bears the traces of the young women who attended this school. The Colonial School for Girls and Women was founded in 1908. It offered young women of Dutch origin an education in preparation for a life in the colonies, specifically in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. The curriculum included language lessons, housekeeping, and hygiene to train young women to be wives, educators, and missionaries in the colonies. These women were taught to become instruments of cultural influence, tasked with maintaining European norms within a vastly different cultural context. How did these women reconcile their personal identities with their colonial roles? How did they experience life in a culture so different from their own? These are just some of the questions that this register brings to mind.