Room XI · The Ballroom
Events and holidays
Family celebrations and occasions in the Maybelline archive — holidays, parties, auctions, gatherings and festive photographs.
- Letters kept
- Hundreds
- Corrections adopted
- 41
- Still open
- Three questions
Corrections adopted
Forty-one places where a reader was right and this archive was wrong. Each links to the post as it now stands.
- 17 DecOriginal Maybelline Christmas Card 1952.1 min
- 23 DecMerry Christmas 1952 Christmas card from Tom Lyle Williams.1 min
- 21 DecMy favorite vintage Maybelline family pictures from Christmas past.1 min
- 22 DecMerry Christmas from Author, Sharrie Williams. Here are some of my favorite vintage family Christmas pictures3 min
- 19 DecMerry Christmas from Author, Sharrie Williams. Here are some of my favorite vintage Christmas pictures2 min
- 17 DecChristmas in the 50’s. Some of my favorite pictures1 min
Everything in this room
Selected letters, published with permission · 21 posts2015
2014
- Christmas Day at our house was more than just Santa Claus and presents, it was the love that still remains today25 December
- Vintage Merry Christmas 1943 during WW1124 December
- Hey Everybody Happy Holidays! Enjoy my gift to you…a free chapter of my book, The Maybelline Story,16 December
- Maybelline Horror Story… October, 1920…HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!31 October
- My Publisher Bettie Youngs with some of her Author’s, Showing Off Their Books at “The Three Tomatoes” Launch Party10 February
2012
2011
- Maybelline Christmas Card from TL Williams, 1952.24 December
- In the Kitchen with Maybelline for the Holidays.12 November
- Bill Williams Clenet arrives in style, for it’s 35th Birthday Party at Alain Clenet’s Ranch in Santa Barbara..30 October
- Maybelline Story author, Sharrie Williams believes giving back, is the answer to peace.11 February
Adjoining rooms
Room II
The Parlor
The cold case. Evelyn Williams’ death, the theories, and the public record. The hushed room of the house.
Room VIII
The Studio
Hollywood and the stars associated with Maybelline, including performers featured in the brand’s Hollywood-era advertising.
Room XII
The Pool House
Everything else. The posts that don’t fit a room — recipes, guests, miscellany.
Stories New stories, by text.