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 Spellman Museum of Forney History.

April 12 - May 10, 2016
Spellman Museum of Forney History
S. Bois d’Arc Street
Forney, TX 75126

Map

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