Robert Woodruff and Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans

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Robert Woodruff, the president of the Coca-Cola Company, is pictured with Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans at the Stork Club in New York City, during the 1940s. Evans owned the Atlanta Coca-Cola Bottling Company, founded by her husband Joseph Whitehead, for several decades before selling it to Woodruff in 1932.

Courtesy of Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.

Robert Woodruff and Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans

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