Carrie Munn was born Carolyn Nunder in Buffalo, New York on January 29, 1898. In 1924 she married Orson D. Munn, a lawyer and owner of the Scientific American magazine. Their only child, Orson D. Munn, Jr. was born in 1925. Before her marriage, Munn ran her own dress shop and designed the clothing sold in it. In the early 1940s, she opened a design firm and called it the Carrie Munn Shop. Located at 640 Madison Avenue in New York City, the business flourished during the 1940s and into the 1950s.
From the description of Collection of Carrie Munn materials, ca. 1943-1947. (The Henry Ford). WorldCat record id: 57735094