Title from Photograph	Gregg - Lincoln home, Fayetteville, Ark.
Time Period	1930s
Date of Photograph	ca. 1930
Physical Description	Sepia print, glossy, 9 5/8" wide x 8" high
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..."
Source of Original	MC 1427, William Simeon Campbell Photograph Albums and Papers, Box 8, Folder 10, Image 106
Digitized By	University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas
Digital Format	300 dpi, JPEG
Series Title	A Shared History: Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas

Gregg - Lincoln home, Fayetteville, Ark.

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