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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.

Many boats moored in the water near City Island.

“City Island”

City Island was a Bronx fishing village located on the Long Island Sound across from Pelham Bay Park.

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine