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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Field Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone: Portrait of Unidentified Man
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Field Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone: Campus of Fourah Bay College on Mount Aureol
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Field Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone: Local Traditional Music Band Playing Xylophone and Kora Instruments, Probably during Wire Recording Session
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Field Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone: Musician Displaying Kora Instrument
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Field Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone: Sylvester Modupe Broderick, Esq., Colonial Education Service, African Assistant Director of Education
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Field Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone: Housing for Indigeneous Population
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Field Work in Bunce Island, Sierra Leone: The Island Shore at the bottom of the British Slave Castle
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Field Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone: Two Standing Women
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Field Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone: The Harbor of Freetown
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Field Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone: Legislative Council (?) Meeting
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Field Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone: Modern Building
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Field Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone: Local Music Band Playing Drums, Guitars and Horn, Probably during Wire Recording Session
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Field Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone: Street Scenes and Colonial Architecture
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Travel to Western Africa: Harbor of Freetown (Sierra Leone), One of the Port of Call along the Journey to Lagos, Nigeria
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Field Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone: Warehouses
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Field Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone: Industrial Activities
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Field Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone: The Harbor of Freetown
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Field Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone: Three-Story House
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Field Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone: The Harbor of Freetown
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Field Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone: The Harbor of Freetown
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Field Work in Nigeria and Sierra Leone: Academic Building of Unidentified College
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Field Work in the Vicinity of Bunce Island, Sierra Leone: Traditional Sailboat
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Field Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone: View from Campus of Fourah Bay College on Mount Aureol
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Field Work in Freetown, Sierra Leone: African Balanji (Marimba) Being Played by a Temne Musician, Probably during Wire Recording Session
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