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05-026; Three Women

1940-1949
Janet E. Finley Collection of Quilt History Photographs
Silver Gelatin Print c. 1940-1945
Photographer: Unknown
Size: 3" x 4.5"

Inscribed on the photograph's verso is "Nancy's quilt. A.W.V.S. women finished it and quilted it. They're doing the same with another one donated." The quilt is a Grandmother's Flower Garden. A.W.V.S. stands for the American Women's Voluntary Services, founded in 1940 by Mrs. Alice McLean, who modeled her new organization on the Women's Voluntary Service (W.V.S.) of Great Britain. Mrs. McLean declared the organization to be "non-partisan, non-political, and open to all women irrespective of race or religion provided they were loyal to the principles of the Government of the United States."

-- With permission of the publisher, excerpted from Janet E. Finley, Quilts in EveryDay Life 1855-1955 (Schiffer Publishing, 2012).

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