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 Interurban Railway Museum at 972.941.2117.

May 1–
May 31, 2013
Interurban Railway Museum
901 East 15th Street
Plano, TX 75074

Map

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