Papers, 1937, 1952.

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Papers, 1937, 1952.

The scrapbook was compiled in a Murcia hospital on a ward where Bell was floor nurse. The short story, which Bell wrote for a class, is a work of fiction based upon an incident that she witnessed in a Murcia hospital.

0.25 linear ft. (1 box)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7584874

Churchill County Museum

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Hilda Bell Roberts was born Hilda Bell in Philadelphia in 1915, graduating from the Jewish Hospital School of Nursing in 1937. She went to Spain in May of 1937 as a volunteer nurse with the Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy, sailing on the S.S. Normandie. In Spain she worked as a staff nurse in the operating room at the Universidad Hospital and the Cruz Roja Hospital in Murcia before transferring to the Aragon front. There she traveled with the autochir, a mobile hospital that set up surgi...