Class portrait of girls in Gayaza high school, Wakiso District
odd: label: General
content: Original caption reads "Girls in High School, Gayaza." The Church Missionary Society of England founded Gayaza High School on the land that was donated to the Church by Kabaka Daudi Cwa II in January 1905 with 4 pioneer students and hence becoming Uganda's first girls' boarding school. The purpose of the school's establishment was to train girls, especially the daughters of chiefs of the Kingdom of Buganda, in those skills that would make them better wives. The founders however had a different motive: to educate girls based on a strong Christian foundation.
place: label: Place
content: Wakiso District (Uganda)
label: Place
content: Uganda
topic: label: Topic
content: Education
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content: Uganda photographs
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photographic print (B/W)
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1910
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2000-005, Item EEPA.2000-005-0031
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints