[1] Georgia Wonder girls were pre-vaudeville acts in which the young women performed feats of strength, usually pitted against men.

[8] During 1884, she was on stage in Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Utah, Kansas, New York, Illinois, and Maryland.

Miles expired in early 1885, Mattie and her father returned to Georgia and toured the south giving demonstrations.

[20] Many "magnetic" and "electric" girls were showing off their skills in innumerable locations both in Europe and the North American continent at the time.

[21] Mattie Lee Price worked in various dime museums and opera houses and joined circuses during summer months.

[23] After the World's Columbian Exposition ended in 1893, she was on the same venue as Harry Houdini at the Kohl & Middleton’s South Clark Street dime museum in Chicago.

Mr. Brigg of England challenged Mattie Lee Price's act at Frank Hall's Casino in Chicago, Illinois in January 1894.

[29] Part of the advertisement reads: "The Magnetic Wonder a Human Magnet of Strength and Weight the phenomenon of the 19th century, lifting hundreds of pounds of dead weight by just placing her hands on it, twisting bars of iron, resisting as much force as can push on a 12 foot pole by simply placing her hands at one end.

"[30] During the summer of 1897 Mattie Lee Price was with the Great Wallace Shows[31] (circus) out of Cincinnati, Ohio and billed as "Gaza the Magnetic Girl.

[34] On 11 March 1899, Mattie Lee Price passed away at number 81 Hammersmith Road, Fulham District, London, England.

[42] After the death of their mother, the children were left as orphans and recorded as "boarders" on a farm in Lena, Wisconsin in the 1900 Federal Census.

[44] Houdini wrote she was, "barely ninety pounds, and had the sickly look of a ‘consumptive.’" And, "yet this weakling was able to perform feats requiring super human strength and endurance from either good spirits or the devil himself.