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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 geese strutting inside a chicken wire and wood pen.

“Up Mill Lane Way. New York City.”

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

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine