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Nurses working for the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service in New York City took these snapshots, which show their lives and the lives of the families they cared for in the 1930s.

8 White female nurses in uniforms with neck ties, standing in a group.

“Miss Jeffrey, Mrs. Smyth, Mrs. Latham, Mrs. Drake, Miss Hastings, Mrs. Hebberd, Miss Millner, Miss Kramer”

The nurses who worked for the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service were pioneering women. They brought essential health care and education to families in the neighborhoods they served.

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine