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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 Eva Sloan Long and William Redden Long Papers #5212, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Hilga Sloan in 2005 (Acc. 100082).

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

This summary description was created in November 2017 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.

Encoded by: Laura Smith

Updated by Jodi Berkowitz, November 2018

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Agricultural machinery industry--North Carolina.
• Long, Eva Sloan, 1937-2004.
• Long, William Redden, 1914-1990.
• Models (Persons).
• Tarboro (N.C.)

Eva Marie Sloan Long (1937-2004) of Madisonville, Tenn., was a white model and actress in New York, N.Y., in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In 1965 she married William Redden Long (1914-1990), white founder and owner of Long Manufacturing North Carolina, Inc., which built mechanized farm equipment in Tarboro, N.C.

The collection chiefly consists of photographs and newspaper clippings. Other materials include a scrapbook, ephemera and printed items, correspondence, song books, scripts, slides, films, and financial documents both personal and professional. Photographs and newspaper clippings pertain chiefly to Eva Long's modeling career and the Longs' affluent society circles in Tarboro. Numerous items document Eva Long's involvement in the Tarboro Woman's Club. Other images depict the Longs' vacation travel to various destinations including Las Vegas, Nev., the Bahamas, and the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville, Tenn. Most printed items are brochures or catalogs for Long Mfg. products, and a few items relate to District 13 of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs. Also included is an invitation to the presidential inauguration of George H.W. Bush in 1989. Correspondence is scattered and includes a love letter from British actor Peter Sellers to Eva Sloan before her marriage to W.R. Long.

• Film (F-5212/1-5)
• Scrapbook (SV-5212/1)
• Slides (PF-5212/1-3)