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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.

A White woman in a two-piece dress with white shawl collar standing full-length against a wall.

“Mrs. McGrath”

Mrs. McGrath served on the staff of the Gun Hill Center of the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service as a clerk.

In 1933, Visiting Nurse Service staff coordinated 550,00 home visits to more than 100,000 patients.

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine