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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.
“Gun Hill party ─ September 1934”
The nurses who worked for the Gun Hill Center of the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service brought essential care and education to neighborhood families. Sometimes, they formed friendships with each other and shared their free time together.
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