Lucy Cobb Institute photograph, 1896-1897.

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Lucy Cobb Institute photograph, 1896-1897.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/530323823

The collection consists of a group portrait of women of the Lucy Cobb Institute, 1896-97. Forty-four women are present in the picture, and most are identified on the back of the photograph.

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Lucy Cobb Institute (Athens, Ga.)

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The Lucy Cobb Institute, a secondary school for young women in Athens, was founded in 1859 by Thomas R.R. Cobb, a prominent lawyer and proslavery writer. Between 1880 and 1928 Cobb's niece Mildred Lewis Rutherford, a Lucy Cobb graduate, taught at the school. She served as principal for twenty-two of those years... Despite its success, the institute struggled to maintain high enrollment and keep its bills paid. The school faced acute financial difficulties in the 1920s, mostly because of the agri...