Gregg - Lincoln home, Fayetteville, Ark.
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Title from Photograph |
Gregg - Lincoln home, Fayetteville, Ark. |
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Time Period |
1930s |
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Date of Photograph |
ca. 1930 |
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Physical Description |
Sepia print, glossy, 9 5/8" wide x 8" high |
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Content Notes |
Typed on verso, "This is the old parlor of Dr. A. S. Gregg, Fayetteville, Ark. It later became the home of T. C. Lincoln, a remarkably thrifty mecanic [sic] and dealer in second hand goods and antiques. You are looking at him and his wife. He later sold this home to Goff - McNair Motor Co. and it is now torn away and lost for all time. On right hand side of room hangs a "Grape Cluster" mirror, and under it a marble-top parlor table of same remarable [sic] finish. Lincoln had this tabele [sic] - and had left word with a Massachusetts antique dealer, that should he ever find a "Grape Cluster" mirror frame, to wire him. Wire: 'Have found five-foot tall grape-cluster frame. Will take $75 for it.' Answer: 'Express frame at once.' Express on t was $27.00. It had no glss [sic] in it. Lincoln traced on paper the exeact [sic] size of it, and sent to Porter Mirror Co. in Fort Snmith, asking them to make the best bevel-plate mirror they knew how to make. It cost him $50.00 fitted in the frame. One of the clusters was lost from the frame. So he got down in the basement and soon, from a block of walnut, carved on so you could not tell from those on the frame, stained and treated it until it fit presisely [sic]. Eagerly he and his wife hung it where you see it, arranged the table and lamp under it - nobody knew how old the lamp was - but the mirror and table were knwon to be made more than a century gone. Tourists from north and south frequently stopped and spent time looking over the Lincoln treasure-house..." |
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Source of Original |
MC 1427, William Simeon Campbell Photograph Albums and Papers, Box 8, Folder 10, Image 106 |
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Digitized By |
University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas |
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Digital Format |
300 dpi, JPEG |
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Series Title |
A Shared History: Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas |
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