In Yamhill County, Oregon, Dorothea Lange took a series of photographs of women identified in the caption as the farm women of the Helping Hand Club.  In her field notes, Lange described how these women—“wives of the members of the West Carlton [Oregon] chopper cooperative”—met once a month in one of their homes to quilt. This particular quilt was for one of the women who was expecting a new baby. The group raffled a previous quilt for seventeen dollars, funds held by the Helping Hand Club “for something that may come up.”

[Full title: "Farm women of the ‘Helping Hand’ club display a pieced quilt which they are making for the benefit of one of their numbers"]