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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.

3 White female nursing students in uniform dresses and hats standing on a Manhattan street corner.

“Greenwich Center, students”

Nursing students Riley, Brown, and Freer standing on a street in Manhattan, holding their nurses’ bags. The nursing school provided nurses’ bags, with contents and required $2.00 deposits from the students.

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine