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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.
“Elmer Newman, age 7 months. He has a brother who was a cardiac patient of ours for a long time, but now he is very well. Another brother is a counselor at one of the Henry Street camps.”
In addition to nursing services, Henry Street Settlement provided child care, summer camps for neighborhood children, and educational programs.
In the summer 1929, the 79th Street Center sent 300 children to Camp Tappawinga near New Haven, Connecticut.
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