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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.

One of a line of Frankie Welch-designed dresses made for the Hubert Humphrey presidential campaign

Scarf designed by Frankie Welch for the Carters while he was governor of Georgia

Photograph of the two friends in commemoration of the new scarf design