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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.

In the middle of a street a two-story house rests while being moved, two other houses nearby.

“House during relocation”

The Gun Hill Center visiting nurses cared for a family of 9 whose house was being relocated.

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine