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 Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Dallas at 972.243.0761.

February 28–
March 28, 2012
Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Dallas
1840 Hutton Drive
Carrollton, TX 75006

Map

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