- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Mildred Lewis Rutherford
- Date of Original:
- 1851/1928
- Subject:
- Teachers--Georgia--Athens
Women teachers--Georgia--Athens
Women--Georgia--Athens
School principals--Georgia--Athens
Women school principals--Georgia--Athens
United Daughters of the Confederacy. Georgia Division
Lucy Cobb Institute (Athens, Ga.)
Authors, American--Georgia--Athens
Women authors, American--Georgia--Athens
Rutherford, Mildred Lewis, 1852-1928 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Mildred Lewis Rutherford taught at the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens from 1880 to 1928, serving as principal of the school for twenty-two of those years. A prominent member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and an advocate for the "Lost Cause" interpretation of the Civil War, Rutherford also published a number of books on southern history.
Photograph of Mildred Lewis Rutherford. She wears a long pink dress with a white lace overlay. She wears short white gloves.
Rutherford taught at the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, Georgia from 1880 to 1928, serving as principal of the school for twenty-two of those years. An advocate for the "Lost Cause" interpretation of the Civil War, Rutherford also published a number of books on southern history. She served as the president of the Georgia division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy from 1899 to 1902. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/mildred-lewis-rutherford-1851-1928/m-8310/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries
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- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/mildred-lewis-rutherford-1851-1928
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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