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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.

Sitting in a semi-circle, 7 females in coats watch a White female nurse in uniform conducting class.

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

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine