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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 home of one of our patients. The patient’s husband was over 90 years old and had fought in the Crimean War. We were disappointed that he didn’t know Florence Nightingale.”
In contrast with the large, densely populated apartment buildings found in some areas of the Bronx, much of the borough continued to have a rural feel in the 1930s.
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