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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.

Female sitting in bed holding her newborn twins while her toddler daughter is standing nearby.

“These twins are one week old. On the left they are with their mother and sister. The family eat only raw food, mostly fruit and vegetables with much milk and no meat. The children seem to be thriving.”

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine