Eleanor Fay Allen Cunningham Papers

Collection

Identifier: MU-PP-0025

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Eleanor Fay Allen Cunningham Collection Finding Aid

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Scope and Contents

The Eleanor Fay Allen Cunningham Papers contains one scrapbook (1948-50), one letter from Ms. Cunningham (September 15, 1995), and one loose photograph of Ms. Cunningham (c.1995).

Dates

Creation: 1948-1995
Creation: Majority of material found within 1948-1950

Creator

Cunningham, Eleanor Fay Allen (Person)

Rights Statement

To quote in print, or otherwise reproduce in whole or in part in any publication, including on the World Wide Web, any material from this collection, the researcher must obtain permission from (1) the owner of the physical property and (2) the holder of the copyright. Persons wishing to quote from this collection should consult the reference archivist to determine copyright holders for information in this collection. Reproduction of any item must contain the complete citation to the original.

Biographical / Historical

Eleanor Fay Allen Cunningham worked as a circulation clerk at The Christian Index in Atlanta from October 1947 to July 1948, a few months after John J. Hurt became its editor. She attended Mercer University during the 1948-49 and 1949-50 school years and Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville during the summer of 1948.

During her time at Mercer, Cunningham lived in Bartlett House and was a member of the Chi Omega sorority. She left Mercer in June 1950 and married another former Mercer student, Richard Graham Cunningham. He served in the Air Force from 1951-55, during which time the couple lived in Texas, New York State, and Germany. They returned to the United States in 1956 and moved to Miami. They divorced in 1965, and Cunningham and her son continued to live in Miami, where she worked as an executive secretary and administrative assistant.