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[Identification of item], in the Eben T. Rawls Papers #5387, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Ruth Rawls Muller in July 2008 (Acc. 100905).

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• Candy industry--North Carolina.
• Rawls, Eben T., 1898-1970.
• Sugar trade--Cuba--Employees.

Eben T. Rawls worked as an accountant in the sugar industry in Preston, Cuba and New York City, N.Y., before he bought with F. H. Fries the Crystal Candy Company in Winston-Salem, N.C., and renamed it the Rawls-Dickson Candy Company in 1926. At some point the company became known as Rawls Delicious Foods, Inc.. Rawls later closed the candy manufacturing plant and created Eben Rawls Associates, Inc., a sales group also in Winston-Salem, N.C.

The Eben T. Rawls Papers document the arc of Rawls' career from an office job with a sugar company in Preston, Cuba, to the founding of the Rawls-Dickson Candy Company in Winston-Salem, N.C.; and later his sales group, Eben Rawls Associates, Inc. Materials include family correspondence, postcards, and photographs documenting Rawls' youthful impressions of office work in Cuba during World War I; family and business correspondence about his life leading up to his founding of the Rawls-Dickson Candy Company in Winston-Salem, N.C., in 1926; a scrapbook of Rawls-Dickson Candy Company and Crystal Candy Company promotional materials; weekly bulletins for the Rawls-Dickson Candy Company; business and club membership cards; a Crystal Candy Company ledger, circa 1925; a shares book for Rawls Delicious Foods, Inc.; correspondence relating to a contest in which the salesmen of Eben Rawls and Associates, Inc. won a trip to Las Vegas, Nev., in 1960; and "Recapturing Family History" about the Rawls, Davis, Ransom, and Ray families.