This is a Friendship quilt, each block is embroidered (couched) with the name of a different individual, probably the person who is supposed to have made that particular quilt block. In the center is "Presented by Woodville Farm Workers Ladies Club". The names on the quilt are in order from proper right top (reading across from left to right) to proper left lower corner: Ruth Edwards, Irving Abkin (who was the Camp Manager at the Woodvile Farmworkers' Community), Mildred French, Mabel Nichols, Lillie Wilson, Edna Standridge (who probably organized the quilt project), Minnie Smith, J. G. Rockafellow (the local High School Principal), Lydia Rogers, Annie Moat, Gladys Whitley, Ina Melten, Nellie Watts, Lillie Terry, Leta Blair, Eva Dowling, Phyllis Abkin (wife of the Camp Manager, Irving Abkin), and Jo Threatt. All of the names on the quilt blocks appear to have been written by the same person, and are embroidered by a colored thread being couched in place by a fine white thread. The blocks feature the types of prints that would have been popular for women's cotton dresses in the lower central valley in the early 1940's. The center of each block is "white" as is the back of the quilt; the border is light blue with with the same pink floral print at each corner, finished by pink binding. The quilt was given as a gift of appreciation by the ladies of the Woodville Farmworkers' Community to the donor, Louanne Bartlett (who later married and became Louanne Green). Louanne had graduated from the University of California (Berkeley) in 1939. She worked briefly, then interviewed to be an intern. She received a certificate in Social Welfare for a year of graduate studies. It was with this new Certificate in Social Welfare that she found herself employed as a Home Management Supervisor through the Farm Security Administration, and was sent to the Woodville Farmworkers' Community just outside Porterville. She explained that at that time the area was quite rural. She worked under Irving Abkin who was the Camp Manager. Her duties included supervising the camp Nursery School, equipment inventory, interviewing prospective Camp residents to see if they qualified to live in one of the Camp apartment units, or one of the tent units, etc. She recalled that the women in the Camp made ticking mattresses, stuffing them with cotton which was provided. She also remembered that the women showed her how to make a sunbonnet. Although the appreciation quilt was made in March of 1943, Louanne didn't leave until May/June 1943, when she went to work for the Golden Gate Kindergarten Association as a Social Worker intake interviewer. (Artifact H93.30.2 is a handwritten letter outlining who did what on the quilt, and how much money was contributed.)