United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794Frances Benjamin Johnston1939Mildred 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.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/education/lucy-cobb-instituteForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/education/lucy-cobb-instituteForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaCarnegie Survey of the Architecture of the SouthGreek revival (Architecture)--Georgia--AthensSingle-sex schools--Georgia--AthensSchools--Georgia--AthensSchool buildings--Georgia--AthensBuildings--Georgia--AthensHistoric buildings--Georgia--AthensTrees--Georgia--AthensFences--Georgia--AthensLucy Cobb Institute (Athens, Ga.)Athens (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc.Cobb, Thomas Read Rootes, 1823-1862Lucy Cobb InstituteStillImage