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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.

White, female nurse in uniform next to a street peddler's cart on Houston Street, Lower Manhattan.

“Houston Street”

Miss Brown in her nurse’s uniform on Houston Street, in lower Manhattan.

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine