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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.

Five female nurses in uniforms working at desks in an office. Bulletin board hanging on the back wall.

“In the office”

Nurses worked 41-hours a week with one full day and one-half day off each week.

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine