Claude Pickens
Illustration — Tombstone of Master Ma in front of draped building, Hsüan Hua Kang, Kansu Claude L. (Chinese: 毕敬士, 1900 in Alexandria, Virginia – 1985 in Annisquam, Massachusetts) was, with his wife Elizabeth Zwemer Pickens, an American missionary in northwestern China. Working with the China Inland Mission, his surveys in 1933 and 1936 of the Hui and Tibetan peoples produced important photographic collections.
Claude Pickens
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- Claude Pickens was born in 1900. · Alexandria.
- Died
- Claude Pickens died in 1985. · Annisquam.
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- United States
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- photographer
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Illustration — Tombstone of Master Ma in front of draped building, Hsüan Hua Kang, Kansu Claude L. (Chinese: 毕敬士, 1900 in Alexandria, Virginia – 1985 in Annisquam, Massachusetts) was, with his wife Elizabeth Zwemer Pickens, an American missionary in northwestern China. Working with the China Inland Mission, his surveys in 1933 and 1936 of the Hui and Tibetan peoples produced important photographic collections.
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Claude Pickens (1900–1985) was an American photographer.
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