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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 rows of women sitting in coats and hats in front of a table.

“A group of mothers ready for the lesson—a demonstration bath.”

The Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service organized Mothers’ Clubs to educate expectant mothers with a course of talks and demonstrations on maintaining healthy pregnancies.

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine