Texas Nurses Association District 8 - Arvella Bentley Vowell History Collection 1908-1987

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Texas Nurses Association District 8 - Arvella Bentley Vowell History Collection 1908-1987

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthscsa/00017/00017-P.html

Arvella Vowell worked for many years as a registered nurse, private nurse, psychiatry nurse, and polio nurse in San Antonio, Texas. Her long nursing career and her love of history were the inspiration for creating this collection of nursing memorbilia.

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, UTHSC Libraries, University Archives, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900

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