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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.

Seven smiling women in dresses sitting on Jones Beach, some are laughing while looking at a booklet.

“Supervisors’ Picnic, Jones Beach, 1935.”

The nurses who worked for 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 like during this outing to the newly opened Jones Beach.

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine