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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.

White woman sitting at a table, holding 1930s telephone with her right hand, earpiece at her left ear. Map of VNS districts on the wall.

“Mrs. McGrath”

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine

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