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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.

White female nurse in uniform standing beside a Ford Model A Coupe on a rural road with trees.

“Another Gun Hill car, Mrs. Smyth, driver”

Nurses who worked for the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service drove cars to visit families in their care who lived in rural areas of the Bronx.

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine