Hilda Bell Roberts Papers 1937; 1952

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Hilda Bell Roberts Papers 1937; 1952

Hilda Bell Roberts was born Hilda Bell in Philadelphia in 1915. A trained nurse, Bell went to Spain in 1937 where she worked in several hospitals and a mobile unit. She returned to the States in December 1938. The collection consists of (a portion of?) a scrapbook compiled in a Murcia hospital and a short story based on an incident from her experience in Spain.

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