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Rural Texas Women At Work, 1930-1960

Industrious and enterprising, rural Texas women performed the common tasks of housewives everywhere—cooking, housekeeping, and doing laundry. In addition, they raised large gardens, tended flocks of poultry, canned and preserved foods for their families, made and repaired furnishings, picked cotton, drove tractors, and took over the men’s work during World War II.
Gonzales Locations and Dates
June 10 - 19 Victoria College-Gonzales Campus
June 20 - July 6 Gonzales County Jail Museum ( “Old Jail”)
July 7 - 12 Riverside School Community Center

Rural Texas Women at Work, 1930–1960 uses photographs and explanatory texts to convey a sense of the lives of rural Texas women. Panel topics include:
  • Preparing food
  • Cleaning house
  • Painting a house
  • Making a mattress
  • Caning a chair
  • Trimming shrubs
  • Ranching
  • Making and mending clothes
  • Planting gardens
  • Feeding chickens
  • Driving a tractor
  • Plowing with a mule
  • Picking cotton
  • New electrical appliances
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Rural Texas Women... is brought to Gonzales by the Gonzales County Historical Commission in partnership with Thomas Shelton Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution through grants from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the City of Gonzales, Tourism Advisory Committee.

Rural Texas Women at Work is sponsored by Texas A&M University, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, and the Arts Council of Brazos Valley and is produced by Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities

For More Information Contact: chair@gonzaleschc.org / 512-924-5850

Historical Organizations

Texas Historical Commission
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Preservation Texas
Texas State Historical Association

Gonzales Co. Government

Gonzales County
City of Gonzales
City of Nixon
City of Smiley
City of Waelder

Gonzales Co. Communities

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Bebe
Belmont
Oak Forest
Ottine
Monthalia
Leesville
Dewville
Harwood
Saturn
Hickston
Dilworth
Dreyer
Cheapside
Pilgrim
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Wrightsboro
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