Flatbush Branch of Woman’s Needlework Guild at Dutch Reform Church, (January 22, 1916), v1972.2.57; M. Gorodess; Brooklyn Historical Society.
The Woman’s Needlework Guild was a charitable organization founded near Dorchester, England by Lady Wolverton in 1883, the aim of which was to make and provide new garments and articles of clothing for hospitals and other nonprofit institutions. The organization migrated across the Atlantic, first to Philadelphia in 1885, and by 1890 a branch had been established in Brooklyn. Membership to the Guild was contingent only upon providing at least two articles of clothing per year. The Needlework Guild still exists today in the U.S., and there is an operating branch in Staten Island.