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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.

Female nurse in coat and cloche hat making a purchase from a man at a pushcart in Lower Manhattan.

“Push carts on Bleecker Street, Miss Stafford makes a purchase”

Nurses explored their neighborhoods and made purchases from local vendors.

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine