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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 Gun Hill car in the district, Miss Kramer, driver”
The Gun Hill district of the Bronx was named for a cannon stationed on a local hill during the American Revolution. The nurses’ headquarters were 15 miles from Times Square, and 16 miles from the original Henry Street Settlement House on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
On an open road, Miss Kramer poses in front of a 1929 Ford Model A Oval Window Business Coupe.
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