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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.
“Supervisors’ Picnic, Jones Beach, 1935.”
A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, “Looks like Ruth Freeman in foreground, is it?” Freeman was a supervisor with the Henry Street Visiting Nurses from 1935–1937.
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