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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: [Various Photographers], Seven CDV Portraits of Burmese Students in New York State, 1860s-70s
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[Various Photographers]

Seven CDV Portraits of Burmese Students in New York State, 1860s-70s
Albumen prints (7)
Each 4 x 2/12 inches
All but one with photographer's credit; three with inscriptions verso.
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An interesting group of photos showing Burmese missionaries and students in the United State, mostly New York State, n the 1860s. Included are two portraits of Moung Kyaw, one of...
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An interesting group of photos showing Burmese missionaries and students in the United State, mostly New York State, n the 1860s.

Included are two portraits of Moung Kyaw, one of Colgate University’s first international students. Born in 1842 in Myanmar (then Burma), he traveled to the United States at the age of 16. Shortly thereafter, he converted to Christianity and enrolled in the Grammar School (later known as Colgate Academy) in 1864. He continued on to the undergraduate Scientific Course, from which he graduated in 1868. Kyaw made a name for himself as a popular speaker at religious and anthropological lectures throughout the northeast. He was also a featured speaker at his August 1868 commencement exercises, where he gave a speech noting his passion for the Christian faith and his wish for progress in Burma.

Also included is a portrait of Sah Myah Sah. Similar to Moung Kyaw, Myah Sah also gave lectures around the same time. An 1871 article in Vermont’s Black River Gazette notes that a lecturer by that name “gave an interesting and pleasing account of customs and habits among the Karens, his native tribe.” The other subjects are unidentified.

Missionary work in Myanmar began when American Baptist missionaries Adoniram and Ann Judson arrived there in the early 19th century, evangelizing and translating the bible. They were soon followed by Jonathan Wade, one of the first students of the Baptist Seminary in Hamilton, NY, and his wife Deborah Latham Wade. Many of their early converts were the Karen people, a minority group of ancient Tibeto-Burman ancestry.

Credited photographers include Ranger & Austin of Syracuse; H.A. Dudley, S.C. Abbott, and H.H. Hill, all of Hamilton; and Whitney and Beckwith of Norwalk, CT.
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