Anna Rice Cooke

Anna Rice Cooke (Satumba 5, 1853 - Agusta 8, 1934) ta kasance mai kula da fasaha kuma ta kafa Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Honolulu .

 Tarihin Rayuwa 
An haifi Anna Charlotte Rice a ranar 5 ga Satumba, 1853, a cikin wani fitaccen dangin mishan a Oahu, Hawaii. Mahaifinta malami ne William Harrison Rice (1813–1863), kuma mahaifiyarta Mary Sophia Hyde ce. Anna ta girma a tsibirin Kaua ʻ i . Ta halarci Makarantar Punahou (a lokacin ana kiranta Kwalejin Oahu) daga 1867–1868, da Kwalejin Mills daga 1871–1872.  A shekara ta 1874, ta auri Charles Montague Cooke, wani ɗan kasuwa mai nasara, kuma daga ƙarshe su biyun suka zauna a Honolulu. Ɗaya daga cikin 'ya'yanta maza shine Charles Montague Cooke Jr. (1874–1948), wani masanin dabbobi ɗan Amurka. Sauran 'ya'yanta su ne Clarence H. Cooke, George P. Cooke, Richard A. Cooke, Alice T. Cooke da Theodore A. Cooke. 

A shekarar 1882, Cookes sun gina gida a kan titin Beretania, a gaban Thomas Square Park . A lokacin, suna da kyawawan ra'ayoyi na Diamond Head da Makarantar Punahou daga tagogi na hawa na biyu. Yayin da aikin Cooke ya bunƙasa, sun fara tattara tarin kayan fasaha na kansu. Karin kayan Anna na farko "kayan falo" ne da suka ƙawata gidansu na Beretania Street. Tana yawan zuwa shagon mai yin kayan daki na Yeun Kwock Fong Inn wanda galibi ana aika masa da kayan yumbu da yadi na kasar Sin daga ɗan'uwansa a China. Daga ƙarshe Fong Inn ta zama ɗaya daga cikin manyan masu shigo da kayan fasaha na Honolulu. Anna ta kasance mai fafutukar kare masu fasaha na gida, musamman Charles W. Bartlett . Ta shirya baje kolin kayan fasaha a gidanta kuma ta gabatar da masu fasaha ga abokanta masu arziki.

 Kwalejin Fasaha ta Honolulu 
Tarin zane-zanen Cookes ya fi nasu gidan da kuma gidajen 'ya'yansu girma. A shekarar 1920, ita da 'yarta Alice (Misis Phillip Spalding), surukarta Dagmar (Misis Richard Cooke), da Catharine EB Cox (Misis Isaac Cox), malamar fasaha da wasan kwaikwayo, suka fara tsara da bincike kan tarin da nufin nuna kayayyakin a gidan tarihi na yaran Hawaii. Ba tare da wani horo na musamman ba, waɗannan matan sun sami takardar izinin gidan tarihi daga Yankin Hawaii a shekarar 1922, yayin da suke ci gaba da tattara kowace taska ta fasaha a cikin tarin. A shekarar 1924, Cooke ta ɗauki mai zane Frank Montague Moore a matsayin darektan farko na Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Honolulu . Tun daga farko, tana son gidan tarihi wanda ke nuna halaye na musamman na kayan kwalliyar al'adu daban-daban na Hawaii.

Masu Cookes sun ba da gidansu na Beretania Street don gidan tarihi, tare da kyautar dala 25,000 da kuma dubban ayyukan fasaha. An rushe gidan danginsu don samar da wuri ga sabon gidan tarihi. Mai zane-zane na New York Bertram Goodhue ya tsara tsare-tsaren ginin gargajiya na Hawaii tare da tsaunuka a matsayin bango da bishiyoyi masu fure, furanni, da ciyayi masu launuka daban-daban waɗanda suka dace da kayan waje masu sauƙi da rufin tayal. Goodhue ya mutu kafin a kammala aikin. Hardie Phillip ne ya shiga don kammala aikin. Tsawon shekaru, an yi koyi da wannan salon na musamman a gine-gine da yawa a faɗin jihar.

A ranar 8 ga Afrilu, 1927, aka buɗe Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Honolulu . A ranar 8 ga Agusta, 1934, Cooke ta mutu a cikin gidanta cikin nutsuwa.

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