Georgia Tracy Wadley friendship album

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS-057

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Collection consists of one book and some correspondence between the Middle Georgia Archives and Reese Library and a photocopy of a photograph. The volume itself is a published "friendship album," entitled Mental Photographs, and was published by Henry Holt and Company in 1875. The volume includes questions about the owner, and their friends, which have been written in by Georgia Wadley. The majority of entries date to 1876, though there are a number in a different hand dated 1900-1904. The volumes includes entries for many of Gerogia Wadley's friends, including: Lizzie Johnson, Lena Holt, Mamrie Redding, Josie Clisby, Mamrie Little, Willa Etheridge, Fannie Hunter, Mary Bonner, Ida Groshand, Bettie Johnson, Gertrude Snider, Henrietta Nisbet, Eugenius Nisbet, Allie M. Camp, Louise Rosevaler, Marie Juanita Coleman, Anne Tracy Duncan, Marie L. Wood, Susie C. Tracy, Alice Cullen, Lila Wood, Julia Willingham, John Baxter Duncan, Anne Tracy Duncan, Louise Walcolm, Alice Henderson, Ophelia Nisbet, and Annie Lynne.

Dates

Created: 1876-1904
Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1983

Creator

Wadley, Georgia E. Tracy (Person)

Conditions Governing Use

Standard Federal Copyright Law Applies (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical or Historical Information

She was the daughter of Brigadier General Edward Dorr Tracy C.S.A (1833-1863) and Ellen Elizabeth Steele Tracy (1833-1868). She had at least one sister, Susie C. Tracy, a collection of whose letters is in the Middle Georgia Archives, Macon Georgia. In the 1880 Federal Census, she is listed in Macon, Georgia with the family of an uncle, William Johnston. While she may not have graduated from the institution, there is evidence that she received an education from the Wesleyan Female College (now Wesleyan College, Macon GA). In a Macon Telegraph and Messenger report from June 20, 1876 she is credited with reading her essay “Songs I Remember” at the college’s annual commencement exercises. Other articles report on her participation in bridal parties, church parties and dramatics. Georgia married George Dole Wadley (1857-1930) on June 27, 1883 and had at least two children: Sarah L. Wadley (1886-1968) and Edward Don Tracy Wadley. She is buried in the Wadley Cemetery in Monroe County, Georgia.

Note written by Carol Waggoner-Angleton. Updated by Kara Flynn, 2018.

Extent

1.00 folders

Language

English

Additional Description

Custodial History

Donated by an Augustan active in the arts, culture and historical preservation. This may have been part of a larger collection as evidenced by the collection’s original abstract mental photographs book from the Cohen collection (Macon Ga.) Collection previously titled: Georgia Tracy Mental Photographs album. Retitled in 2017.