Lucy Cobb Institute collection, 1858-1997

Summary

Creator:

Unknown

Date:

1858-1997

Extent:

12 Linear Feet 4 boxes, 6 oversize boxes, 3 oversize folders

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Lucy Cobb Institute collection, ms4244, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains photographs, correspondence, business records, scrapbooks, student records, and writing of Lucy Cobb Institute students, faculty, and administration.

Biographical / historical:

The Lucy Cobb Institute was a boarding school for girls and young women in Athens, Georgia. It was founded in 1859 and named after a daughter of one of the school's founders, T.R.R. Cobb. Millie Rutherford was a long time teacher, administrator, and driving force behind the operation of the school. The school closed in 1931 and the University of Georgia purchased the building to use as a dormitory. In 1884 the offices of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government moved into the complex. The Seney-Stovall Chapel was built in 1882 and fully restored in 1997.

For more information, see the Lucy Cobb Institute page in the New Georgia Encyclopedia.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Student records -- Georgia -- Athens.
Fund raising -- Georgia -- Athens.
Women -- Education -- Georgia.
Scrapbooks.
Endowments -- Georgia.
Private schools -- Georgia.
Insurance records.
Administrative records

Names:

Lucy Cobb Institute (Athens, Ga.)
Barrow, Phyllis Jenkins
Rutherford, Mildred Lewis, 1852-1928

Places:

Athens (Ga.) -- Education.

Preferred citation:

Lucy Cobb Institute collection, ms4244, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.