Billy Baldwin scrapbooks
Scope and Contents
This collection holds a scrapbook with black and white photographs and newspaper clippings from 1976 and focuses solely on events pertaining to the introduction of a line of sheets that Baldwin designed for Wamsutta.
Clippings consist of advertisements for the sheets and interviews with Baldwin. Photographs document two receptions held to celebrate the new line. Baldwin and Julian Tomchin, chief of design at Wamsutta are pictured.
Dates
- Creation: 1976
Creator
- Baldwin, Billy (Person)
- Tomchin, Julian (Unknown) (Person)
- Wamsutta Mills. (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Access is open to researchers by appointment at the Fashion Institute of Technology Library, Department of Special Collections and FIT Archive. If you have any questions, or wish to schedule an appointment contact us at [email protected] or call (212) 217-4385.
Conditions Governing Use
The Department of Special Collections and FIT Archive does not own copyright for all material held in its physical custody. It is the researcher's obligation to abide by and satisfy copyright law (http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#108) when copying or using materials (including digital materials) found in or made available from the department. When possible, the department will inform a researcher about the copyright status of material, the researcher's obligations with regard to such material, and, wherever possible, the owner or owners of the copyrights. Any and all reproduction of originals is at the archivist's discretion.
Biographical / Historical
Julian Tomchin was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1932. He fell in love with textile design while studying at Manhattan's High School of Music and Art. His fabrics are in wardrobes of some of the nation's most fashionable women and he has earned many awards.
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Language of Materials
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Existence and Location of Originals
The Library of the Fashion Institute of Technology, Department of Special Collections and FIT Archive, 27th St. at 7th Ave., NY, NY , USA, 10001
General
Julian Tomchin was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1932. He fell in love with textile design while studying at Manhattan's High School of Music and Art. His fabrics are in wardrobes of some of the nation's most fashionable women and he has earned many awards.
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Shell record
- Title
- Billy Baldwin scrapbooks
- Date
- 2025-06-25
- Description rules
- Dacs; Isad(g); Lo C
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and FIT Archive Repository