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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.
“The sick baby’s home”
Miss Kramer walking down the front steps of one of her patient’s homes, as a sibling sits and goats stir in the yard.
Goats were common enough in the borough that the Yiddish writer Boruch Glasman wrote a short story entitled “Goats in the Backyard.” In the story, Jewish and Italian neighbors in the Bronx shared homemade goat cheese.
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