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• Democratic Party (N.C.)--History--20th century.
• Education--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Gardner, Oliver Max, 1882-1947.
• Gold mines and mining--North America--History--20th century.
• Haile Mines, Inc. (New York, N.Y.)
• Long, W. L. (William Lunsford), 1890-1964.
• Manganese mines and mining--West (U.S.)--History--20th century.
• Manganese, Inc.
• Mineral industries--Government policy--United States.
• Mineral industries--United States--History--20th century.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Northampton County (N.C.)--History.
• Political campaigns--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Roads--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Rosemary Manufacturing Company (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.)
• Santa Fe Gold Mines, Inc.
• Taxation--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Textile industry--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Tungsten Institute--History.
• Tungsten Mining Corp.
• Tungsten industry--Government policy--United States--History--20th century.
• Tungsten mines and mining--North America--History--20th century.
• United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.
• Warren County (N.C.)--History.
• Women--Suffrage--North Carolina.

William Lunsford Long was a state representative from Halifax County, N.C., 1915; state senator, 1919-1923 and 1927; president pro tem of the North Carolina Senate, 1921-1923 and 1927; officer of Haile Mines, Inc., of New York, and its subsidiaries, Tungsten Mining Corp. and Manganese, Inc.; and officer of the Tungsten Institute. Haile Mines, Inc., owned subsidiaries that mined tungsten, manganese, copper, zinc, cobalt, lead, silver, gold, and sand in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

The collection includes business, political, and personal correspondence of W. L. Long. Correspondence, 1914-1923, includes letters about local, state, and national politics, including the campaign of O. Max Gardner for governor of North Carolina in 1920, and especially involving taxes, education, good roads, and women's suffrage. Also included are business and personal papers, mainly 1951-1958, while Long was an executive of Haile Mines, Inc., of New York, and its subsidiaries, and a resident of Warrenton, N.C. Correspondence concerns corporate activities and Long's related interests in national legislation and government regulations; the Tungsten Institute, of which he was an officer, 1953-1957; and business, farming, personal, social and Democratic Party activities in Warren and Northampton counties, N.C.

Included are separate files of operational and financial records of Tungsten Mining Corp., Manganese, Inc., and Haile Mines. Mining operations were in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Virginia, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Canada, Mexico, and elsewhere. Also included are Long's diary, 1936-1964, with brief entries about appointments and business travel; one record book, 1938-1940, of Santa Fe Gold Mines, Inc.; some family correspondence, 1916-1920, concerning property and finances; and records and correspondence of Rosemary Manufacturing Company, a textile manufacturer of Roanoke Rapids, N.C.