Helen Merrill, Nursing Student, circa 1935
This photo is from the Ethel Wight Studio, Portland, Maine.  This negative envelope says, “Miss Helen Murrill, St. Barnabas Hospital #661.” Why I believe this to be the individual. •The 1939 Portland City Directory lists Helen H Merrill as a nurse at 93 Pine. •The 1940 US Census lists Helen Hastings Merrill, a 25-year-old nurse at Hart Street Beth Moses Hospital. In 1935 she was living in Portland, Maine.  I am confident this photo is of Helen Hastings Merrill, born 1 May 1914 in Portland, Maine, when she was a student at St. Barnabas Hospital. 