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Collection Number: 03660

Collection Title: William Meade Prince and Lillian Hughes Prince Papers (#3660) 1890s-1962

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Size 14.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 3,200 items)
Abstract William Prince, born in Roanoke, Va., and raised in Chapel Hill, N.C., was a successful magazine illustrator in the 1920s and 1930s. He was head of the Art Department at the University of North Carolina during World War II and produced drawings and posters in aid of the war effort. The Southern Part of Heaven, his boyhood memoir, was published in 1950. Actress Lillian Hughes Prince, William's wife, appeared in many stage productions in and around Chapel Hill, particularly with the Carolina Playmakers. She also played Queen Elizabeth in Paul Green's The Lost Colony, 1947-1953, and acted with the touring company of Howard Richardson's Dark of the Moon, 1945-1946. The couple had one adopted daughter Caroline, who returned to her birth parents in 1941. The bulk of the collection is correspondence, mostly between the Princes, much of it during their courtship. Also included are professional letters relating to William Prince's career as an illustrator and writer and to Lillian Prince's stage career; journals and diaries of both Princes; drafts of two unfinished books by William Prince; collected material, including a scrapbook about The Southern Part of Heaven and three scrapbooks about Lillian Prince's stage career; financial material; and photographs of family members and friends, stage productions, and William Prince's book and magazine illustrations. There is also a small group of materials relating to the purchase of land by the Order of Gimghoul at the University of North Carolina in the 1910s. The Addition of 2004 contains photographs, correspondence, and other papers. Photographs are primarily of William Meade Prince and Lillian Hughes Prince; they include photographs of the Princes with their adopted daughter, Caroline. There are also letters from William Meade Prince to Lillian Hughes Prince written during their courtship, letters to the Princes from Caroline, and other items.
Creator Prince, William Meade, 1893-1951.



Prince, Lillian Hughes, d. 1962.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English.
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Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the William Meade Prince and Lillian Hughes Prince Papers #03660, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Provenance
Received from the estate of Lillian Hughes Prince in April 1963 and from Mrs. Joseph C. Warren of Chapel Hill, N.C., in February 1998 (Acc. 98031) and April 1998 (Acc. 98036) and then from Stafford G. Warren in April 2004 (Acc. 99780).
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Part of this collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

The Addition of April 2004 has not been incorporated into the original deposit of material.

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William Meade Prince (9 July 1893-10 November 1951) was born in Roanoke, Va. and lived in Chapel Hill with his parents and grandfather, Episcopal rector Dr. William Meade, from age five to fifteen. Prince then moved to Birmingham, Ala., to work for a short time. He studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts, 1913-1915, and, upon winning a contest sponsored by Collier's magazine, began his career as a magazine and book illustrator. Prince illustrated stories for magazines such as Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, Red Book, and Cosmopolitan. He also produced illustrations for the work of authors such as James Street, Philip Wylie, Kathleen Norris, William Saroyan, and Arnold Bennet. He was noted for his illustrations of the stories of Roark Bradford, and, among other advertising assignments, did a long-running advertising campaign for Dodge cars.

After moving to Chapel Hill with his wife, Lillian Hughes Prince (17 June 1893-25 February 1962), whom he met while in Birmingham, Ala., and married in 1915, Prince became involved with acting. During this time, he remained active as an illustrator and taught in the Art Department of the University of North Carolina. He also produced The Southern Part of Heaven (1950), the best-selling memoir of his childhood. During World War II, Prince was for a time as acting head of the University of North Carolina Art Department and also did drawings and posters for the Committee to Defend America, the American Field Hospital Corps, and the USO.

Lillian Hughes Prince had been active with the Westport Players when she lived in Westport, Conn., and had studied acting with Harry Irvine at the Academy of Allied Art in New York City. From the 1930s until her death in 1962, she had parts in many Carolina Playmakers productions, including The House of Connelly by Paul Green, The Little Foxes, Ah, Wilderness!, Our Town, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Showboat, Oklahoma, and Spring For Sure. Prince performed in Blithe Spirit with the Raleigh Little Theater and shortly afterwards joined the cast of Howard Richardson's Dark of the Moon with the Schubert national touring company, where she had the role of the "cunjer woman" during the 1945-1946 season. Prince also performed in Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas ( Patience, Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore) and held the role of Queen Elizabeth in Paul Green's outdoor drama The Lost Colony during the summers from 1947 through 1953.

William Prince also acted in some of the plays in which his wife was involved, including Ah, Wilderness!, Blithe Spirit, and The Lost Colony, in which he played Ananias Dare. After the success of The Southern Part of Heaven, which he also illustrated, Prince began working on two other books. One was to be a record of a trip that he and Lillian made out West. Prince was working on the other project, apparently a sequel to his boyhood memoirs, when he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his Chapel Hill home in November 1951. Lillian Prince died in New York in 1962. The couple had one adopted daughter Caroline, who returned to her biological parents in 1941. Both William and Lillian Prince are buried in the Chapel Hill Cemetery.

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Personal correspondence, most of it between the William and Lillian Prince during their courtship, constitutes most of these papers. Over the years, the correspondence between the Princes records the development of William Prince's career as an artist and his wife's career as a stage actress. Many of the letters are from times when Lillian Prince was on tour with stage productions, particularly 1945-1946, when she played the "cunjer woman" with the Schubert national touring company in Dark of the Moon by Howard Richardson. Other correspondence relates to the 1950 Rinehart & Co. publication of William Prince's boyhood memoir of Chapel Hill, N.C., The Southern Part of Heaven. His tenure during World War II as head of the Art Department at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, as well as his activities during the war making posters and drawings for the Committee to Defend America, the American Field Hospital Corps, and the USO are also documented. Professional correspondence concerning William Prince's career as an illustrator and writer is present in both the personal correspondence series and in professional correspondence in the collected material series. The same is true for correspondence relating to Lillian Prince's stage career.

Journals and diaries for both Princes are included in the writing series, as are several drafts of two unfinished books by William Prince. Much of the collected material is contained in four scrapbooks, one compiled by Lillian Prince about The Southern Part of Heaven and three others about Lillian Prince's stage career. Financial material concerns the Princes' taxes, stock, and property holdings, as well as some royalty statements for The Southern Part of Heaven. Pictures are chiefly family photographs, some photographs taken from stage productions in which either Lillian or both William and Lillian acted, and photographs of book or magazine illustrations by William Prince. The Addition of 2004 contains photographs, correspondence, and other papers. Photographs are primarily of William Meade Prince and Lillian Hughes Prince, including photographs of the Princes with their adopted daughter Caroline. There are also letters from William Meade Prince to Lillian Hughes Prince written during their courtship, letters to the Princes from Caroline, and other items.

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Contents list

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. Personal Correspondence, 1908-1961.

About 1600 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

NOTE: Professional correspondence concerning The Southern Part of Heaven and Lillian Prince's acting career is filed in the collected material series.

Chiefly personal letters, most covering the period of the Princes' courtship, from 1912 until their marriage on 24 November 1915, while William Prince attended the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts and Lillian Hughes lived with her parents in Birmingham, Ala. A substantial number of letters are from 1945-1946, when Lillian Prince was on tour with Dark of the Moon. Other letters were written by the Princes to friends while they were on a European tour.

There is also some business correspondence concerning the Rinehart & Co. publication of William Prince's memoir, The Southern Part of Heaven, and his career as an illustrator for magazines. Also included are telegrams, mainly condolences on William Prince's death, and a few Christmas cards and postcards.

Folder 1

1908

Folder 2

1912: August

Folder 3

1912: September-October

Folder 4

1912: November

Folder 5

1912: December

Folder 6

1913: January-March

Folder 7

1913: April-June

Folder 8

1913: July

Folder 9

1913: August

Folder 10

1913: September

Folder 11-12

Folder 11

Folder 12

1913: October

Folder 13-14

Folder 13

Folder 14

1913: November

Folder 15-16

Folder 15

Folder 16

1913: December

Folder 17

1914: January

Folder 18

1914: February

Folder 19-20:

1914: March

Folder 21-22

Folder 21

Folder 22

1914: April

Folder 23-24

Folder 23

Folder 24

1914: May

Folder 25

1914: June

Folder 26-27

Folder 26

Folder 27

1914: August

Folder 28-31

Folder 28

Folder 29

Folder 30

Folder 31

1914: September

Folder 32-36

Folder 32

Folder 33

Folder 34

Folder 35

Folder 36

1914: October

Folder 37-39:

1914: November

Folder 40-42:

1914: December

Folder 43-46

Folder 43

Folder 44

Folder 45

Folder 46

1915: January

Folder 47-48

Folder 47

Folder 48

1915: February

Folder 49-51

Folder 49

Folder 50

Folder 51

1915: March

Folder 52-54

Folder 52

Folder 53

Folder 54

1915: April

Folder 55

1915: May

Folder 56

1915: June

Folder 57-59

Folder 57

Folder 58

Folder 59

1915: July

Folder 60-64

Folder 60

Folder 61

Folder 62

Folder 63

Folder 64

1915: August

Folder 65-67

Folder 65

Folder 66

Folder 67

1915: September

Folder 68-70

Folder 68

Folder 69

Folder 70

1915: October

Folder 71

1915: November-December

Folder 72

1916: March

Folder 73-75

Folder 73

Folder 74

Folder 75

1916: November

Folder 76-78

Folder 76

Folder 77

Folder 78

1916: December

Folder 79-80

Folder 79

Folder 80

1921: October

Folder 81

1924

Folder 82

1927-1930

Folder 83

1931

Folder 84

1932-1934

Folder 85

1937-1942

Folder 86

1943

Folder 87

1944: 28 January-30 June

Folder 88

1944: July

Folder 89

1945

Folder 90-92

Folder 90

Folder 91

Folder 92

1946: January

Folder 93-94

Folder 93

Folder 94

1946: 13 March-29 March

Folder 95-96

Folder 95

Folder 96

1946: April

Folder 97

1946: May

Folder 98

1947: January-April

Folder 99

1947: May-December

Folder 100

1948: 29 January-7 May

Folder 101

1948: 20 October-31 December

Folder 102

1949

Folder 103

1950: January-March

Folder 104

1950: April

Folder 105

1950: 5 May-7 July

Folder 106

1950: 10 July-19 September

Folder 107

1950: October-December

Folder 108

1951: 18 January-17 March

Folder 109

1951: 3 April-29 October

Folder 110

1951: 10 November-13 November

Folder 111

1951: 14 November-18 December

Folder 112

1952-1954

Folder 113

1955

Folder 114

1957-1958

Folder 115

1961-1962

Folder 116-130

Folder 116

Folder 117

Folder 118

Folder 119

Folder 120

Folder 121

Folder 122

Folder 123

Folder 124

Folder 125

Folder 126

Folder 127

Folder 128

Folder 129

Folder 130

Undated

Folder 131

1951-1961 and undated; greeting cards

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About 70 items.

Arrangement: chronological; undated arranged alphabetically by title.

Twenty-one personal diaries and journals of William Meade Prince and Lillian Hughes Price, some leather bound, some in notebooks, and some loose-leaf; drafts of William Prince's novel-in-progress, variously titled Poodle on the Prarie or An Itching Tarheel; and drafts of a sequel to Prince's boyhood memoirs, also variously titled So Far So Good and Anecdotage of an Artist.

There are also drafts of William Prince's short stories, magazine articles, and lectures as an instructor in the Art Department of the University of North Carolina. Speeches to various clubs and civic groups concerning William Prince's work as an artist and writer include those presented at the opening of an exhibit of his artwork in Raleigh, sponsored by the North Carolina Artists' Society, and those to the Raleigh Women's Club, the Oxford Women's Club, and the Women's Club of Fayetteville about the Southern Part of Heaven. "The Beautiful Water," an article on fishing that William Prince wrote and illustrated for the January 1947 issue of Sports Afield is also included.

Folder 132-146

Folder 132

Folder 133

Folder 134

Folder 135

Folder 136

Folder 137

Folder 138

Folder 139

Folder 140

Folder 141

Folder 142

Folder 143

Folder 144

Folder 145

Folder 146

Journals and diaries (Lillian Hughes Prince): 1907-1961 and undated

Folder 147-151

Folder 147

Folder 148

Folder 149

Folder 150

Folder 151

Journals and diaries (William Meade Prince): 1912-1946 and undated

Folder 152

Drafts of lectures (William Meade Prince): 1944 and undated

Folder 153

Drafts of articles (William Meade Prince): 1939-1950 and undated

Folder 154-155

Folder 154

Folder 155

Drafts of speeches (William Meade Prince): 1947-1951 and undated

Folder 156-157

Folder 156

Folder 157

Drafts of short stories (William Meade Prince): A-W

Folder 158-160

Folder 158

Folder 159

Folder 160

Drafts, including An Itching Tarheel (William Meade Prince)

Folder 161-167

Folder 161

Folder 162

Folder 163

Folder 164

Folder 165

Folder 166

Folder 167

Drafts of untitled autobiography (William Meade Prince)

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About 700 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Memorabilia, mainly contained in four scrapbooks, one about William Meade Prince's memoir, The Southern Part of Heaven, one about Lillian Hughes Prince's role with the 1945-1946 production of Dark of the Moon, one about her career as a stage actress in various Carolina Playmakers productions at the University of North Carolina, and one concentrating on her tenure as Queen Elizabeth in the outdoor drama, The Lost Colony by Paul Green.

Loose material includes playbills and reviews. Also included is professional correspondence relating to William Prince's work as an illustrator and as author of The Southern Part of Heaven, and to Lillian Prince's career as a stage actress, mainly with the Carolina Playmakers. There are also several illustrations, particularly those for The Southern Part of Heaven; sketches by William Prince; and some biographical material relating to the families of William and Lillian Prince, most notably Lillian Prince's mother, Mary Lillian Mctyeire Hughes.

Folder 168

Biographical (WMP): 1940s

Folder 169

Professional correspondence (WMP): 8 August 1938-9 December 1950

Folder 170

Illustrations, miscellaneous (WMP): 13 November 1913-19 March 1952

Folder 171

Cards, portraits, sketches (WMP): 1916-1949 and undated

Folder 172

Illustrations, "The Southern Part of Heaven" (WMP): 1949?

Oversize Volume SV-3660/1

Volume SV-1: 1949-1950, 17 pp. Scrapbook compiled by Lillian Prince concerning William Prince and "The Southern Part of Heaven." Included are clippings, reviews, pictures, and personal notes.

Folder 174-175

Folder 174

Folder 175

Clippings, The Southern Part of Heaven (WMP): 2 May 1948-November 1951 and undated

Folder 176

Clippings, death of WMP: November 1951

Folder 177

Biographical, reviews (Lillian Hughes Prince): 1941? and undated

Folder 178

Professional correspondence (Lillian Hughes Prince): 2 December 1945-29 June 1960 and undated

Folder 179

Plays (Lillian Hughes Prince): 1931-1937 and undated

Folder 180

Plays (Lillian Hughes Prince), Dark of the Moon: 1945-1946

Folder 181

Volume 2: 1945-1946, 136 pp. Scrapbook containing clippings, playbills, snapshots, telegrams, and personal notes received by Lillian Prince while acting in Dark of the Moon by Howard Richardson at Ford's Theater in New York and on tour during the 1945-1946 season. Also included are items relating to the Raleigh Little Theater production of Blithe Spirit, November-December 1945, and the Lake Summit Theater near Hendersonville, N.C., in the summer of 1946.

Folder 182

Plays, Carolina Playmakers (Lillian Hughes Prince): 1941-1952

Folder 183

Plays, Spring for Sure (Lillian Hughes Prince): 4 February 1952-April 1952

Folder 184

Plays, Carolina Playmakers (Lillian Hughes Prince): 16 May 1952-17 October 1958

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Volume SV-3: 1938-1961, 80 pp. Scrapbook containing playbills, clippings, photographs, and personal notes relating to productions of the Carolina Playmakers.

Folder 186

Plays, The Lost Colony (Lillian Hughes Prince): 1950-1961 and undated

Oversize Volume SV-3660/4

Volume SV-4: 1947-1953, 80 pp. Scrapbook containing clippings, photographs, telegrams, letters, notes to Lillian Prince while she was acting in The Lost Colony during the summers of 1947-1953 at Manteo, N.C.

Folder 188

Volume 5: undated, 20 pp. The American Toilet, a lady's self-improvement manual on character, owned by Alice W. Meade, William Prince's mother.

Folder 189

Family (Lillian Hughes Prince): 1915-1961 and undated. Includes biographical material on Lillian Prince's family, particularly her mother Mary Lillian McTyeire Hughes.

Folder 190

Family (WMP)

Folder 191

Friends: 1922-1962 and undated

Folder 192

Other actors: 26 October 1947-9 February 1961 and undated

Folder 193

Pets

Folder 194

Antiques (Lillian Hughes Prince): 1954-1961 and undated

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About 500 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Chiefly papers concerning property owned by William and Lillian Prince, including homes in Westport, Conn., Chapel Hill, N.C., and Manteo, N.C. Also included are the Princes' tax returns and related materials, including stock holdings, 1953-1961, and some royalty statements dated 1951 from Rinehart & Co. for William Prince's book, The Southern Part of Heaven.

There is also a folder correspondence, apparently not directly related to the Princes, dated 14 February 1916-20 May 1918, from Dr. Joseph Pratt, and later, from his secretary Miss H. M. Berry, regarding the payment of subscriptions due from members of the Order of Gimghoul for the purchase of ninety acres of land at Piney Prospect, Chapel Hill, which included Dromgool Rock.

Folder 195

Stocks, property: 1930-1962

Folder 196

Royalties, The Southern Part of Heaven: 1 August 1950-16 April 1951

Folder 197-198

Folder 197

Folder 198

Receipts, invoices (Lillian Hughes Prince): 1955-1962 and undated

Folder 199-200

Folder 199

Folder 200

Tax returns (Lillian Hughes Prince): 1953-1961

Folder 201

Order of Gimghoul property: 14 February 1916-20 May 1918

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About 650 items.

Arrangement: by family member.

Processing Note: See also Addition of 2004.

Family photographs of the Princes, as well as publicity photographs, and photographs from stage plays in which either Lillian or both William and Lillian had roles. Photographs from plays are arranged alphabetically by play title, if known. Other pictures include a few photographs of William and Lillian as children; some photographs of the Prince homes, Swan Pond in Westport, Conn., Chaumiere in Chapel Hill, and their cottage in Manteo, N.C.; photographs of William or Lillian Prince posed as models for possible paintings by William Prince to be used as book or magazine illustrations; and photographs of completed illustrations by William Prince.

Image Folder PF-3660/1

William Meade Prince: Includes photograph of sketch of William Meade Prince by James Montgomery Flagg and a photograph by William Meade Prince in his Chapel Hill home studio with the Princes' poodle Zaza.

Image Folder PF-3660/2

William Meade Prince and others: Prince in role of Ananias Dare in "The Lost Colony;" group picture of 1950 meeting of the University of North Carolina Friends of the Library, including Claire Leighton, James Street, Paul Green, Gerald Johnson, Louis Round Wilson, Frances Gray Patton, Corydon Bell, Ruth Vale, John Sprunt Hill, Inglis Fletcher, and Charles Rush.

Image Folder PF-3660/3

William Meade Prince and Lillian Hughes Prince: Portraits of William Meade Prince and Lillian Hughes Prince with their poodle Zaza in the doorway of their Chapel Hill home, on the beach at Manteo, and several passport photographs from the 1920s and 1930s.

Image Folder PF-3660/4

William Meade Prince and Lillian Hughes Prince with others.

Image Folder PF-3660/5

Lillian Hughes Prince: Mainly poses in costume used by William Meade Prince in creating illustrations for magazines and books. Also photographs of oil portrait of Lillian Hughes Prince by William Meade Prince (see Related Collections).

Image Folder PF-3660/6

Lillian Hughes Prince: 1958-1961.

Image Folder PF-3660/7

Lillian Hughes Prince: Postcard portrait of Lillian Hughes Prince as a two year-old, photos as a teenager, and publicity photographs for the stage.

Image Folder PF-3660/8

Lillian Hughes Prince with others: Photograph with cast members of "Oklahoma" not in costume and Lillian Hughes Prince in a bridal group as a bridesmaid.

Image Folder PF-3660/9

Lillian Hughes Prince with mother: 1952 and undated.

Image Folder PF-3660/10-23

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PF-3660/11

PF-3660/12

PF-3660/13

PF-3660/14

PF-3660/15

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Lillian Hughes Prince: Plays, including photographs from "Ah, Wilderness!," "Bad Yankees," "Blithe Spirit" (including William Meade Prince as actor), "The Crucible," "Drama at Innish," "Dark of the Moon," "Hear the Hammers Ring," "The House of Connelly," "The Little Foxes," "The Lost Colony," "The Madwoman of Chaillot," "Noah," "Our Town," "Oklahoma," "Patience," "The Pirates of Penzance," "Spring for Sure," and unidentified productions.

Image Folder PF-3660/24

Mary Lillian Mctyeire Hughes with others.

Image Folder PF-3660/25

Pets of William Meade Prince and Lillian Hughes Prince.

Image Folder PF-3660/26

Scenes, mainly of homes of William Meade Prince and Lillian Hughes Prince.

Image Folder PF-3660/27

Friends, family, and other photographs of William Meade Prince and Lillian Hughes Prince.

Image Folder PF-3660/28-29

PF-3660/28

PF-3660/29

Illustrations: Photographs of paintings done for illustrations by William Meade Prince. Includes three color transparencies of published illustrations.

Image Folder PF-3660/30

Ship Models: Photographs of ship models used by William Meade Prince for illustrations (see Related Collections).

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About 200 items.

Photographs, correspondence, and other papers. Photographs are primarily of William Meade Prince and Lillian Hughes Prince, including photographs of the Princes with their adopted daughter, Caroline. There are also letters from William Meade Prince to Lillian Hughes Prince written during their courtship, letters to the Princes from Caroline, and other items.

Image Folder PF-3660/31-36

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PF-3660/36

William Meade Prince photographs

Includes childhood photographs; individual portraits; William Meade Prince at his houses in Westport, Conn., and in Chapel Hill, N.C., and painting and teaching art classes the University of North Carolina.

Image Folder PF-3660/37

Lillian Hugh Prince photographs

Includes childhood photographs, individual portraits, and Lillian Hughes Prince in costume.

Image Folder PF-3660/38

William Meade Prince and Lillian Hughes Prince photographs

Portraits of William Meade Prince and Lillian Hughes Prince at home, with their daughter Caroline, and with their pet dogs.

Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-3660/1

William Mead Prince and Lillian Hughes Prince photographs

Includes a photograph of an unidentified man titled "Mr. Gault as Sir Peter Teazle."

Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-3660/2

William Mead Prince and Lillian Hughes Prince photographs

Outside under an arbor with their dogs. Includes photographs depicting both William Meade Prince and Lillian Hughes Prince and of Lillian Hughes Prince alone.

Image Folder PF-3660/39

Photographs of William Meade Prince's artwork that inspired the mural on the side of the Carolina Coffee Shop on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Folder 203

Correspondence, 1913-1951

Includes letters from William Meade Prince to Lillian Hughes Prince written during their courtship and letters from the Princes' adopted daughter Caroline.

Folder 204

Writings and other papers

Rough drafts of unpublished works of William Meade Prince, sketches of the Princes' pet dogs, and printed materials.

Folder 202

Newspaper clippings about the Princes

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