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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 mothers seated around a table with supplies and two White female nurses helping with project.

“Student nurses assist in pre-activities, teaching mothers to make paper bags, cut patterns, and make swabs.”

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine

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