Rural Texas Women at Work, 1930–1960
Exhibition

Drawn from files of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service archives at Texas A&M University, this Humanities Texas traveling exhibition uses photographs and explanatory texts to convey a sense of the lives of rural Texas women, helpful programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Extension Service, and the changes that swept across rural Texas in the Great Depression and World War II. For more information, contact The Falls on the Colorado Museum at 830.798.2157.

June 26–July 31, 2012
The Falls on the Colorado Museum
2001 Broadway St.
Marble Falls, TX 78654

Map

Map of event location
Fourteen-year-old Doris Mears planting corn, by unknown photographer, April 1942.