Wolcott took a series of photographs of the Peacock family, a FSA client family who benefitted from a credit program and advice from home economists. Wolcott used quilts hanging on the porch of the Peacocks’ home as the backdrop for a family portrait. The quilts in the family portrait serve as more than just a decorative backdrop. These make-do objects pieced from scraps—some clearly threadbare—in the same series of photos featuring rows of canned food and other objects suggestive of resilience show Wolcott’s efforts to symbolically use objects around the Peacocks’ home to demonstrate the government’s success in cultivating self-sufficiency in this family’s life.

[Full title: "Mr. & Mrs. Peacock, RR (Rural Rehabilitation) family (four years) and children in front of their home"]