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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 standing near several pushcarts on a street in Lower Manhattan.

“Push carts in Thompson Street”

Miss Brown stands on the sidewalk at 140 Thompson Street, in lower Manhattan, in an area known today as SoHo.

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine