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 Museum of Southern History.

March 7–
April 4, 2022
The Museum of Southern History
7502 Fondren Rd.
Houston, TX 77074

Map

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