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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 a white apron holding a swaddled infant in a garden.

“Mrs. Smyth takes care of a new baby in the outskirts of New York City.”

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine