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photographs, pamphlets, 1944; album, Board of Police Commissioners, including newsclippings,
correspondence, photographs, 1968; folder, including correspondence, speeches, reports,
newsclippings, articles, photographs, certificates, 1946-1981; folder, Prime Rate, 1979-1982,
includes photocopies of newsclippings regarding the lowering of the prime interest rate;
photocopies of two letters: Ronald Reagan to Long, July 27, 1982, and Malcolm Baldridge,
secretary of commerce, to Long, January 27, 1983; one envelope of papers, 1942-1971;
correspondence, certificates and awards; two photographs.
Preliminary inventory available.
Cite as: I.A. Long Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0930
Long, John F. (1816-1888).
Papers, 1790-1917. 4 folders (approximately 30 items)
John Fenton Long was born on the White Haven Farm in St. Louis County in 1816. He was
the son of William Lindsay Long (1789-1849) and Elizabeth Sappington Long (1789-1849),
builders of the original White Haven home, and grandson of Captain John Long, Revolutionary
War veteran and early resident of St. Louis. The Dent family purchased White Haven four years
after John F. Long’s birth and remained closely associated with the Long family. John F. Long
married Frances Pipkin (1820-1863), and the couple had three daughters: Susan, Lillie, and
Emaline. After Frances’s death, he married Mary N. (Sappington) Vale, widow of Humphrey
Vale. John and Mary had no children by birth, but adopted a daughter, Mary Hardesty. John F.
Long was educated in St. Louis and became a schoolteacher. He later served in a number of
official offices including police chief of the City of St. Louis, St. Louis County marshal, county
judge, and collector of customs of the port of St. Louis. He also served on the St. Louis city
council. He was a close friend of U.S. Grant and served as Grant’s St. Louis agent during his
presidency. He died in 1888.
The collection consists of correspondence, land records, tax receipts, commissions, property
deeds, invitations, and clippings relating to the Long family and John F. Long's personal and
business relationship with Ulysses S. Grant. The collection is arranged in chronological order.
Finding aid available
Cite as: John F. Long Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
Long, Stephen H.
See United States Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers. Stephen H. Long record books.
A2236
Looker, Benjamin.
Collection, 1967-2004. 2 items
Benjamin Looker authored BAG: Point from Which Creation Begins, the Black Artists’
Group of St. Louis, published by the Missouri Historical Society Press in 2004.
Collection includes typescript titled “Interviews on the Black Artists’ Group (BAG) of St.
Louis” (365 pages; includes an index), conducted, transcribed, and compiled by Benjamin
Looker in 2004. This typescript includes “information on the Black Artists’ Group, a collective
of artists working in various media that existed in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1968-72. In addition
to BAG, the interviews touch on a number of subjects that may be of interest to other
researchers, including racial politics and political activism in 1960s St. Louis, artistic collectives
in other cities, and the 1970s jazz performance scene in New York City loft buildings.” The
collection also includes photocopies of documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and