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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.

Middle-age White woman wearing a hat, glasses, and gloves, standing on a street with a bus passing behind her.

“Miss Barry, Fordham Hospital Social Service”

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine