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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.

Swaddled infant rests on a wash table in a backyard, laundry hanging in the background.

“This rubber bath tub makes a good bed for baby. Baby’s home behind.”

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine

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