EVANS, LETTIE PATE WHITEHEAD, 1872-1953
Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans family papers > Business records > Whitehead Holding Company records

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Subseries 4.1
Whitehead Holding Company records, 1903-1973
Boxes 35 - 44; BV 1 - 9; OBV 1 - 2

Historical Note

The Whitehead Holding Company was incorporated in 1931 in Wilmington, Delaware. Lettie Pate Evans, Conkey Pate Whitehead and Joseph B. Whitehead, Jr. were the stockholders in the company. The company's holdings consisted of the stocks Evans and her sons held in The Coca-Cola Bottling Company, the parent bottling company started by Joseph B. Whitehead, Sr. and J.T. Lupton in 1900, as well as the shares of other bottling companies, including The Atlanta Coca-Cola Bottling Company, The Jackson [Georgia] Coca-Cola Bottling Company, The Newnan [Georgia] Bottling Company and The Coca-Cola Bottling Works in Dallas, Texas. While Evans and her two sons were alive, the company paid out approximately 90% of its net income to the company's three stockholders. In 1933 Robert W. Woodruff, the president of The Coca-Cola Company, arranged a deal to swap all of the holding company's stock in The Coca-Cola Bottling Company for common stock in The Coca-Cola Company. Two years later, in a similar deal, The Coca-Cola Company acquired the Whitehead Holding Company's stock in the Western Coca-Cola Bottling Company. The Whitehead Holding Company was liquidated in 1971, because of changes in the tax law. Its assets were transferred to the Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation, the Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation, Inc., and the Lettie Pate Evan Foundation, Inc.

Scope and Content Note

This subseries consists of the records of the Whitehead Holding Company from 1903-1973. The records include correspondence, financial records and subject files related to the company, its holdings and the liquidation of its assets. The correspondence is of particular interest because it includes letters about the Whitehead Coca-Coca bottling interests, including correspondence about the 1933 and 1935 deals to swap the company's bottling company stock for stock in The Coca-Cola Company. The financial records pertain mostly to taxes and tax-related issues, while the subject files document the company's history and activities.

Arrangement Note

Arranged by record type.

Correspondence
Box Folder Content
35 1 1924-1932
35 2 1933-1935
35 3 1936-1938
35 4 1939-1941
35 5 1943-1946
35 6 1947-1950
35 7 1951-1952
35 8 1953
36 1 1954
36 2 1955
36 3 1956
36 4 1957
36 5 1958
36 6 1959
36 7 1960
37 1 1961
37 2 1962
37 3 1963
37 4 1964
37 5 1965
37 6 1966
38 1 1967
38 2 1968 January-July
38 3 1968 August-December
38 4 1969
38 5 1970
38 6 1971
38 7 1972
Financial records
39 1 Audit reports, 1935-1946
39 2 Audit reports, 1947-1959
39 3 Financial statements, 1931-1938
39 4 Financial statements, 1939-1941
39 5 Financial statements, 1942-1944
39 6 Financial statements, 1945-1947
39 7 Financial statements, 1948-1950
40 1 Financial statements, 1951-1953
40 2 Financial statements, 1954-1956
40 3 Financial statements, 1957-1958
40 4 Financial statements, 1960-1963
40 5 Financial statements, 1964-1967
40 6 Financial statements, 1968-1971
40 7 Liquidation, 1963-1969
40 8 Liquidation, 1970 [1 of 3]
41 1 Liquidation, 1970 [2 of 3]
41 2 Liquidation, 1970 [3 of 3]
41 3 Liquidation, 1971 [1 of 2]
41 4 Liquidation, 1971 [2 of 2]
41 5 Net value, 1956-1970
41 6 Securities, 1968-1970
42 1 Taxes, 1931-1937
42 2 Taxes, 1938
42 3 Taxes, 1939-1941
42 4 Taxes, 1942-1947
42 5 Taxes, 1948-1953
43 1 Taxes, 1954-1960
43 2 Taxes, 1961-1962
43 3 Taxes, 1963
43 4 Taxes, 1964-1965
43 5 Taxes, 1966-1968
43 6 Taxes, 1969-1970
44 1 Taxes, 1971-1973
Subject files
44 2 Board of Directors, meetings, 1931-1945
44 3 By-laws, 1937-1945
44 4 Certificate of incorporation, 1931
44 5 Coca-Cola Bottling Company (Chartered 1903), 1903-1935
BV1 Corporate records, 1931-1941
BV2 Ledger, 1938-1948
BV3 Ledger, 1949-1950
OBV1 Ledger, 1946-1971
OBV2 Ledger, 1956-1971
BV4 Ledger, 1956-1970
BV5 Minutes, 1941-1958
BV6 Minutes, 1941-1955
BV7 Minutes, 1956-1970
BV8 Minutes, 1958-1970
BV9 Shareholding certificates, 1931-1970
44 6 Western Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Chicago, 1910-1934
44 7 Western Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Chicago, 1935
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