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Lydia Luhman Pederson collection
Collection
Identifier: 039
Abstract
Artifacts and other objects collected during Lydia Pederson's 1953 trip from Capetown, South Africa to Cairo, and during Sonjia and Jim Olstad's 1967 stay in Nigeria. The collection includes a small amount of related material.
Dates:
1969 - 1990
Lavinia Scott (1907-1997) Papers
Collection
Identifier: 005
Abstract
Missionary in Natal, South Africa; papers consist mainly of letters and other items sent by Scott and her colleagues to her mother.
Dates:
1930-1959
Slides of Africa from the University of Wisconsin--Madison
Collection
Identifier: 034
Abstract
Slides of Africa from various sources; these slides document a variety of topics such as agriculture, landscapes, city scenes, villages, architecture, industry, transportation, commerce, and people, from throughout Africa during the 20th century.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960 - 2000
Lorenzo Dow Turner Papers
Collection
Identifier: 023
Abstract
Lorenzo Dow Turner served as Professor of English and lecturer in African Cultures at Roosevelt University College in Chicago. The Papers document Turner's extensive educational training, his long teaching career first at Fisk University and then at Roosevelt University, his exhaustive linguistic research, and the revolutionary theories on black speech development in America that he pioneered. Of special interest are cassette tapes including copies of the original sound recordings made by...
Dates:
1915-1973
Jan Vansina Papers
Collection
Identifier: 030
Abstract
Jan Vansina was born in Antwerp, Belgium on September 14, 1929 and received his Ph.D. in history from the University Leuven in 1957. He is a major figure in the study of Africa. He published twenty monographs, over two hundred articles, and was the co-author, editor, compiler, annotator etc. of many other works. His extensive fieldwork and study of oral tradition established the context and methodologies for reconstructing African history through the use of oral tradition. The Jan Vansina...
Dates:
1718-2010; Other: Date acquired: 07/31/2010
Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African photographs
Collection
Identifier: 037
Abstract
The collection is comprised of about 6,500 photographs organized in 75 separate albums, scrapbooks or loose collections, taken primarily in East Africa between about 1860 and 1960.
Dates:
1860-1960; Majority of material found within 1880-1920
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