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Frankie Welch giving a talk at the University of Georgia, likely about her exhibition entitled Frankie Welch Designs. Multiple of her past designs can be seen in the background, such as the Nixon inauguration and the Betty Ford scarves.

Frankie Welch often added a reserve where politicians or other prominent individuals could add their own signatures, as seen in the lower right of this scarf. People who bought this scarf could have it signed by whichever congressperson or…

Frankie Welch adjusting one of her Frankie designs on a client

Postcard of the main Alexandria location of Frankie Welch of Virginia. Features Genie Welch in the foreground and Frankie Welch in the background

Ribbon cutting ceremony for Frankie Welch's dress shop Frankie Welch of Virginia, located in Alexandria, Virginia

Frankie Welch's first scarf design. Designed at the request of Virginia Rusk, wife of Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who asked Welch to design something “truly American” for the White House and State Department to use as gifts.

The people pictured are gathered at the campaign
headquarters in Washington, D.C., for the announcement of Hubert H. Humphrey’s candidacy for president. All of the women besides Frankie Welch and Mildred Pepper are wearing Humphrey H-line dresses,…

List of people showing Frankie Welch's designs, left to right:
Jocelyn Monroney (daughter-in-law of Senator A. S. Mike Monroney of Oklahoma) wearing an H-Line dress;
Libby Cater (wife of Douglass Cater, special assistant to President Lyndon B.…

Frankie Welch in her shop with two of her 1968 designs: a dress made from the Republican National Convention fabric and the Hubert H. Humphrey H-line dress

Specially made fabric designed by Frankie Welch for the Republican National Convention. Welch retailed the fabric by the yard so that Republican women could make their own garments.