Lorenzo Dow Turner Papers
Object Details
- 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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Mestre Bimba holding a Berimbau, Angola musical instrument
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Snr. Maxwell Alakija of Bahia, Brazil and family
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Rooks Turner, Sr.
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Segansa, Feast of Epiphany, Nordeste, Bahia
- Shrine (Temple) of an Angola deity
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Sea-Island dialect of South Carolina
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Theodora Maria Cardozo Alcantara
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Senhor Martiniano do Bomfim, born in Bahia of African parents
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View of Bahia from deck of an approaching ship
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Fruit vendor, Bahia
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A weaver, Bahia
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A Yoruba cult dancer, Bahia
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Daughter of Africans (Bahia)
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Ex-head of Yoruba cult, Bahia
- Sea Islands off the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia
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Formerly a Mãe de Santo of a Yoruba cult, Bahia
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Howard University Varsity Baseball Team
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Lorenzo Dow Turner
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Mestre Cabecinha and his Capoeira group
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Lorenzo Dow Turner Elementary Class
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Emile and Placido Alakija, brothers of Smr. Maxwell Alakija
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A former with the present head of a Gege cult
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Senhor and Senora Santos, both speak Yoruba, Bahia
- Carnival group, Bahia
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