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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.

A woman holding an infant in front of a store, small child in the foreground.

Chinese woman and her baby in Miss Pearson’s district

In the 1930s, almost half a million people who lived in the Bronx were recent immigrants. Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service provided essential health care, education, and resources to families regardless of nationality or economic status.

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine