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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.

View across fields to a river, where a barge is passing.

“View from in front of the house. The barge is on a little river which runs into Long Island Sound.”

The Gun Hill Center visiting nurses traveled to isolated homes in still-rural areas of the Bronx to treat patients in their homes.

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine

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