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 Gillespie County Historical Society at 830.997.2835.
October 10–November 5, 2013
Map
Fourteen-year-old Doris Mears planting corn, by unknown photographer, April 1942.