Notebook, Freetown Creole, Sierra Leone, B. W. A.

Object Details

Creator
Turner, Lorenzo Dow, 1890-1972
Date
October 1951
Extent
1 Item (Field Notebook (20 p. ), 12.75 in.)
Type
Archival materials
Field notes
Topic
African languages
Linguistics
Place
Sierra Leone -- Languages
Collection Citation
Lorenzo Dow Turner papers,Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Lois Turner Williams.
General
This field notebook was created by Lorenzo Dow Turner in 1951 while conducting field work on the Krio (creole) language in Sierra Leone.
Notebook, Freetown Creole, Sierra Leone, B. W. A., October 1951
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  • Lorenzo Dow Turner Papers
    Biographical/Historical note
    Lorenzo Dow Turner was born in Elizabeth City, N.C. in 1895. He earned his B.A. in 1914 from Howard University; in 1917, he received an M.A. in English from Harvard University. He received his doctorate in English from the University of Chicago in 1926 while simultaneously serving as chairman and professor of the Department of English at Howard from 1917 to 1928. He held the same positions at Fisk University in Nashville from 1929 to 1946. In 1946 he accepted a professorship in the English department at Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he remained as professor of English and lecturer in African Cultures until his retirement in 1970. Turner was professor emeritus at Roosevelt until his death at age 77 in 1972. Turner's professional and academic interests encompassed both English and linguistics. A noted scholar of African languages and linguistics, he learned numerous West African languages, mastering five of them. He was a noted authority on Gullah, a Creole language spoken in the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia.
    Date
    1895 - 1972
    Extent
    23.97 Linear feet (20 boxes)
    Citation
    Lorenzo Dow Turner papers,Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Lois Turner Williams.
    Type
    Collection descriptions
    Archival materials
    Audiovisual materials
    Field recordings
    Photographs
    Photographic prints
    Maps
    Correspondence
    Topic
    Sea Islands Creole dialect
    African languages -- Study and teaching -- United States
    Linguistics -- Research -- United States
    Identifier
    ACMA.06-017
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