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This collection represents an album of 98 sepia albumen photographs taken by the expatriate German photographer Peter Klier. Most of the photographs probably date from the early to late 1890's. The provenance of Colgate's album is unknown, but it was almost certainly the gift of one of numerous Madison University graduates working as missionaries in Burma. Klier was known to market such albums to visitors. The album has considerable religious, ethnographic, and artistic value, especially since many of the physical subjects must have decayed or been destroyed during the intervening years.