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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.

Pond seen from across a field with shrubs, elevated train line in far distance.

“In front of Thomas’ house, Mill Lane”

The Gun Hill Center Visiting Nurses cared for the Thomas family.

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine