the dolls that the company name derived from were idyllic portrayals of slave life: https://www.dailycitizen.news/news/lifestyles/town-crier-dixie-dolls/articl

the dolls that the company name derived from were idyllic portrayals of slave life: https://www.dailycitizen.news/news/lifestyles/town-crier-dixie-dolls/article_cd21fafb-efc9-5c24-87c8-d4af0103c8bd.html https://www.dailycitizen.news/news/lifestyles/town-crier-dix... https://images.app.goo.gl/rbZRdCejSCa8MHuK8 https://images.app.goo.gl/rbZRdCejSCa8MHuK8 For reference here is a painting uses the same archetypes that the dolls reference: https://images.app.goo.gl/E1twLvbmKW4YHNen8 https://images.app.goo.gl/E1twLvbmKW4YHNen8 So the cups may be just some good paper cups, but really no way out of where that name comes from.