Rural Texas Women at Work, 1930–1960
Event

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 John E. Conner Museum at 361.593.2810.

February 24–March 22, 2014
John E. Conner Museum, Texas A&M University Kingsville
700 University Blvd.
Kingsville, TX 78363

Map

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