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 the Vicinity of Bida, Northern Region (Nigeria): Farm Land near Nupe Compounds
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Field Work in the Eastern Region (Nigeria): Young Men Cultivating Small Plot of Land
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Field Work on the Plateau, Northern Region (Nigeria): Farming Land
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Field Work on both Sides of the Benue River, Northern Region (Nigeria): Tiv Women Returning from the Field
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Field Work in the Eastern Region (Nigeria): Young Men Cultivating Small Plot of Land
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Field Work on both Sides of the Benue River, Northern Region (Nigeria): Young Tiv Men with Typical Hoes of the Plateau Region
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Field Work on both Sides of the Benue River, Northern Region (Nigeria): Tiv Women Tending to their Agricultural Field
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Field Work on both Sides of the Benue River, Northern Region (Nigeria): Tiv Women Returning from the Field
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Field Work in Aba, Eastern Region (Nigeria): Extraction of Palm Oil
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Field Work in the Northern Region (Nigeria): Woman Carrying Calabash on Head
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Field Work on both Sides of the Benue River, Northern Region (Nigeria): Tiv Men Practicing Their Traditional System of Hoe Agriculture
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Field Work on both Sides of the Benue River, Northern Region (Nigeria): Tiv Men Practicing Their Traditional System of Hoe Agriculture
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Field Work on both Sides of the Benue River, Northern Region (Nigeria): Young Tiv Men with Typical Hoes of the Plateau Region
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Field Work on both Sides of the Benue River, Northern Region (Nigeria): Tiv Women Tending to their Agricultural Field
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Field Work in the Vicinity of Ilorin, Northern Region (Nigeria): Raw Cotton
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Field Work on the Plateau, Northern Region (Nigeria): Farming Land
- Field Work on both Sides of the Benue River, Northern Region (Nigeria): Tiv Women Tending to their Agricultural Field
- Field Work in Southern Nigeria: Woman Farming Cotton
- Field Work in Southern Nigeria: Woman Farming Cotton
- Field Work in the Western Region (Nigeria): Cassava Plant
- Field Work in the Northern Region (Nigeria): Men with Wooden Pestles and Mortars
- Field Work in the Northern Region (Nigeria): Wire Recording Session of Field Workers Singing
- Field Work in the Northern Region (Nigeria): Woman Carrying Calabash on Head
- Field Work in the Western Region (Nigeria): Cassava Plant
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- filter Lorenzo Dow Turner Papers / Series 5: Photographs, circa 1890–1974 / 5.4.1: Research: Africa / 35mm negatives / Nigeria, Southern 4 Exclude Lorenzo Dow Turner Papers / Series 5: Photographs, circa 1890–1974 / 5.4.1: Research: Africa / 35mm negatives / Nigeria, Southern
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