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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.

Irises in blooming in front of a pond, warehouse and home across the pond in the background.

“Pond and gardens. Same pond as preceding page.”

A view at the Thomas’ house, one of the families cared for by the Visiting Nurses.

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine