Dorothy Hayden Cudahy Papers

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Dorothy Hayden Cudahy Papers

Dorothy Hayden Cudahy Papers

1918-2010

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Dorothy Hayden Cudahy (1922-2010) was an Irish-American woman active in Irish-American social organizations in New York City and host of the Irish Memories radio program from 1943 to 1990. She married John Cudahy (1920-1994) in 1947 and they had one son, Sean (1950-1997). Dorothy was one of the first female parking enforcement officers for the New York City Department of Traffic and retired as the Chief of Administration of the Bureau of Enforcement of the NYC Transportation Department in 1982. She was the first woman elected president of the Kilkenny Association in 1984 and the first woman Grand Marshall of the New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade in 1989. The Dorothy Hayden Cudahy Papers document the life and work of Dorothy Hayden Cudahy, dating from 1918 to 2010, with the bulk of material dating between the 1940s and the 1990s. Materials include audio recordings, correspondence, print and born-digital photographs, financial documents, writings and speeches, ephemera, clothing, and newspaper clippings. These materials document Dorothy and John's professional and social accomplishments, in particular Dorothy's campaigns for and election as the first female St. Patrick's Day Parade Grand Marshall in 1989, and Dorothy's over 50 years as host of the Irish Memories radio program.

45.2 Linear Feet in 15 record cartons, 4 flat boxes, 23 packing boxes, 6 media boxes, 7 manuscript boxes, 4 flat file folders, and 2 custom boxes and 105 Megabytes in 79 graphics.

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