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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.

Toddler boy posing on his tricycle on a walkway, with a White nurse in her uniform kneeling behind.

“Miss Kramer and Bobby”

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine