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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.

Three White female nurses in overcoats and cloche hats standing next to a brick building.

“H.B. [Helen Buker], Miss Sheehan, Miss Weaver”

Helen Buker, Miss Sheehan, and Miss Weaver pose for a snapshot outside an Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) Co. substation, across the street from the nurses’ office at 700 E. 200th Street in the Bronx.

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine