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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 female nurse bathing an infant in a basin while mothers observe.

“Mrs. Latham teaches the mothers how to bathe the baby. Baby Leeberman.”

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine