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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.

Nurse standing at bottom walkway of a house on a curving road with trees and other houses.

“North Oak Drive. Miss Etkin leaves patient’s home.”

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine