Papers, 1925-1981.

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Papers, 1925-1981.

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Personal letters and travel diaries include descriptions of life in Brazil and Caribbean area, circa 1940s, and post-war Czechoslovakia and West Germany. There are also diaries from two trips to Czechoslovakia in 1965 and 1981. Professional papers consist of clippings and articles about George's work; reports from Czechoslovakia and Germany, 1948; speech on the USO; and fifteen photographs of USO, YWCA work, and women in Puerto Rico.

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A.

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United Service Organizations (U.S.)

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George, Virginia Heim, 1908-

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