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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.

City street showing furniture and belongings on a sidewalk outside an apartment building.

“Evictions. Winter of 1932–1933. Frequent occurrences.”

The economic crisis that began in 1929 left millions of people unemployed and no longer able to pay their rent. In 1930, 200,000 evictions took place in New York City.

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine