Preliminary Inventory to the Anna Payne Cunningham Collection circa 1937


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Table of Contents

• Descriptive Summary
• Information on Use
• Access
• Citation
• Biographical Note
• Scope Note
• INVENTORY

Descriptive Summary

Information on Use

Access

This collection is open for research.

Citation

When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Cunningham, Anna Payne. Collection, Acc #, Box #, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library

Biographical Note

Anna Payne Cunningham (1880-1964) was an assistant librarian responsible for the agricultural branch of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute library (1923-1942). She was born December 25, 1880 in Chesterfield County, Virginia, the youngest of 9 children. Her parents were Theodore LeGrande Payne and Anna Catherine Winston.

Cunningham married William Newton Cunningham ca. 1923 in Blacksburg, VA where he was a professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. They lived in Blacksburg during the 1920s through 1940s.

Scope Note

During the summer of 1937, Cunningham visited the University of Chicago for a librarians’ educational program. This collection consists of two bound scrapbooks documenting Cunningham’s first impressions of Chicago and the University of Chicago.

INVENTORY