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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.

Four White, female nurses in matching winter coats, hats, and nurses’ bags, standing in front of a store.

“Greenwich Center, students”

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine