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Billy Baldwin scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: SC.414

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

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

Undetermined

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

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