Finding aid to the Lucile Barrow Turner Collection

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
LUCILE BARROW TURNER (1895-1979) COLLECTION
The collection includes recordings of the performances of Lucile Barrow TURNER,
instruments used in the performances, printed music, and correspondence.
[Detailed finding guide, including card file index, available with the collection]

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(804) 846-0501
LUCILE BARROW TURNER (1895-1979) COLLECTION
The collection includes recordings of the performances of Lucile Barrow TURNER,
instruments used in the performances, printed music, and correspondence.
BOX 1 Audio recordings (Lucile TURNER)
1-1-1 through 1-1-45
BOX 2 Audio recordings (Lucile TURNER)
1-2-1
BOX 3 Audio recordings (Lucile TURNER)
2-1-1 through 2-1-8
2-2-1 through 2-2-3
3-1-1 through 3-1-8a
BOX 4 Audio recordings by others
3-2-1 through 3-2-19
BOX 5 Audio recordings by others
3-3-1 through 3-3-20
BOX 6 Audio recordings by others
3-4-1 through 3-4-20
BOX 7 Audio recordings (Lucile TURNER)
3-5-1 through 3-5-19
BOX 8 Works by Lucile TURNER
"Climbing Fool's Hill"
4-1-1 through 4-1-7d
BOX 9 Works by Lucile TURNER
Tunes and texts
4-2-1 through 4-2-35
BOX 10 Works by Lucile TURNER
Tunes and texts
4-3-4 through 4-3-28
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BOX 11 Works by Lucile TURNER
Tunes and texts
4-4-1 through 4-4-30
BOX 12 Works by Lucile TURNER
Tunes and texts
4-5-1 through 4-5-34
BOX 13 Works by Lucile TURNER
Copyrights 4-6-1 through 4-6-6c
Miscellaneous materials 4-7-1 through 4-7-3
BOX 14 Musical works and stories by others
5-1-1 through 5-1-16
BOX 15 Musical works and stories by others
Printed music and lyrics
5-2-1 through 5-1-16
BOX 16 Musical works and stories by others
Printed music and lyrics
5-3-1 through 5-3-21
BOX 17 Musical works and stories by others
Printed music and lyrics
5-4-1 through 5-4-12
BOX 18 Musical works and stories by others
Printed music and lyrics - collections
5-5-1 through 5-5-7
BOX 19 Musical works and stories by others
Printed music and lyrics
5-7-1 through 5-7-11
BOX 20 Performance notes - Kinescope series
6-1-1 through 6-1-21
BOX 21 Performance notes
7-1-1 through 7-1-20

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BOX 22 Performance notes
7-2-1 through 7-2-14
BOX 23 Photographs - Lucile TURNER
8-1-1 through 8-1-35
8-1-A through 8-1-F
BOX 24 Pamphlets, booklets, magazines, etc.
9-1-1 through 9-1-19
BOX 25 Pamphlets, booklets, magazines, etc.
9-2-1 through 9-2-21
BOX 26 Pamphlets, booklets, magazines, etc.
9-3-1 through 9-3-18
BOX 27 Pamphlets, booklets, magazines, etc.
9-4-1 through 9-4-20
BOX 28 Pamphlets, booklets, magazines, etc.
9-5-1 through 9-5-8
BOX 29 Letters
10-1-1 through 10-1-37
BOX 30 Letters
10-2-1 through 10-2-32
BOX 31 Newspaper articles 1929-1978
11-0-1 through 11-0-51
11-1-1 through 11-1-14
BOX 32 Newspaper articles 1929-1978 (including Black
history)
11-1-15 through 11-1-23
BOX 33 Miscellaneous
12-1-1 through 12-1-39 (includes Prince Eric of Sunbeam)
BOX 34 Miscellaneous diaries
13-1-1 through 13-1-5
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BOX 35 Miscellaneous puppets, etc.
DC-O-H, DC-O-I
BOX 36 Musical instruments
DC-1-A/M
BOX 37 Musical instruments
DC-2-1 through DC-2-4
BOX 38 Miscellaneous notes
BOX 39 Cardfile Index - A-K
BOX 40 Cardfile Index - L-S
BOX 41 Cardfile Index - T-Z
BOX 42 Newspapers (Framed), Newspaper broadsides, "Jeannie with the Light Brown
Hair" (Stephen FOSTER)
[BOX 43] Miscellaneous large instruments, film reels, video, displays, etc.

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
LUCILE BARROW TURNER (1895-1979)
Lucile BARROW, daughter of Herbert C. BARROW and Loula POOLE, was born 8
November 1895 in Blackstone, Brunswick County, Virginia. She studied music at
Emerson College of Oratory, at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston,
Massachusetts, and at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. She married ca. 1917 Lawson W.
TURNER.
In 1929, Lucile Barrow TURNER traveled to New York two days a week to appear on
the Craddock-Terry Shoe Corporation radio show. During World War II, she performed
for troops in hospitals and at debarkation camps. She traveled extensively throughout the
South collecting folk songs.
A prolific song writer, Mrs. TURNER wrote the Bicentennial song for the City of
Lynchburg, as well as the popular "Going Down to Lynchburg Town."
'Cile TURNER was a member of the Colonial Dames of America, the Society of the
First Families of Virginia, Dames Forum Society, the Lynchburg Garden Club, the
Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, the Poplar Forest Chapter of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, and the Bedford Historical Society.
Lucile Barrow TURNER died at her home, Old Elkton Farm, in Forest, Virginia, on 2
July 1979. She was buried in the Spring Hill Cemetery in Lynchburg.
[Lucile Barrow Turner Collection, Mss., MS1234, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, VA; Obituary,
Lynchburg News, 3 July 1979, Sect. B, p. 3, cols. 3, 6-8.]

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