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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.

Three smiling White female nurses in overcoats and cloche hats beside a brick building.

“Miss Kramer, Miss Weaver, H.B. (Helen Buker)”

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine