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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.

Two women in heeled-shoes walking along a paved path at the seashore.

“Orchard Beach”

During the 1930s, people proclaimed the newly constructed Orchard Beach the “Riviera of New York.”

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine