- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Lucy Cobb Institute
- Creator:
- Frances Benjamin Johnston
- Date of Original:
- 1939
- Subject:
- Greek revival (Architecture)--Georgia--Athens
Single-sex schools--Georgia--Athens
Schools--Georgia--Athens
School buildings--Georgia--Athens
Buildings--Georgia--Athens
Historic buildings--Georgia--Athens
Trees--Georgia--Athens
Fences--Georgia--Athens
Lucy Cobb Institute (Athens, Ga.)
Athens (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Cobb, Thomas Read Rootes, 1823-1862 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Mildred Lewis Rutherford served as teacher and principal of the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens for twenty-two years. The students, known as "Lucies," encountered a more academically serious curriculum than was found at the stereotypical finishing school.
This photograph from 1939 shows the front of the Lucy Cobb Institute. The Lucy Cobb Institute, a secondary school for young women in Athens, Georgia, was founded in 1859 by Thomas R.R. Cobb, a prominent lawyer and proslavery writer. This large three-story structure was built in the Greek revival architectural style. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/education/lucy-cobb-institute/m-7437/
- Digital Object URL:
- https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017886241/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia
Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/education/lucy-cobb-institute
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia
Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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