Guide to the Daphne Cunningham Diaries MSS.0385
Cunningham, Daphne--Diaries
- Publication:
University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama
Box 870266
April 2009
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
- Creation:
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- Language Usage:
English
- Description Rules:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Daphne Cunningham Diaries
- Unit ID:
MSS.0385
- Repository:
University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet (2 items)
- Dates:
1913-1914
- Abstract:
Diaries whose short entries provide information on the daily activities of this coed from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, member of Kappa Delta sorority, and 1916 University of Alabama graduate.
- creator
Cunningham, Daphne, 1894-1986
Scope and Contents note
The collection includes two engagement books that document the daily activities of this coed, providing an interesting view of college life and dating culture in the early twentieth century. Short entries show that Cunningham was an active young woman who dated often while living at home with her parents. She described a variety of activities including studying, attending sorority and fraternity and other school functions, going to see movies, and dating. Some entries reveal that the popular Miss Cunningham often had dates with several eligible young men in a single day, enjoying respectable outings such as church, bridge gatherings, the picture show, and chaperoned dances. She later married Merrill Smith, one of the young men discussed in these diaries.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
Daphne Cunningham diaries, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Purchased from Pat Cather, 1998
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Donnelly Walton, 2008; updated by Martha Bace, 2013
- Usage Restrictions:
Conditions Governing Use note
None
- Access Restrictions:
Conditions Governing Access note
None
Biographical/Historical note
Born October 5, 1894, Daphne Cunningham lived in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and was a student at the University of Alabama. A member of Kappa Delta social sorority, she received an A.B. degree in 1916. Cunningham later married Merrill Smith. She died January 28, 1986, in Tuscaloosa.
Source(s)
Appointment books (aat)
Daily Life and Family (localbroad)
Diaries (aat)
Education (localbroad)
Love and Friendship (localbroad)
Students (localbroad)
University of Alabama (localbroad)
University of Alabama--Alumni and alumnae. (lcsh)
Women (localbroad)
Women college students (lcsh)
|x Social life and customs (lcsh)
Diaries Box 3602 Folder 2
Daphne Cunningham Diary, 1913 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/31337
Daphne Cunningham Diary, 1914 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/31338