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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.

One-year-old girl in a dress sitting on a metal scrollwork chair.

“This girl [Teresa Lifrieri] had a fractured collar bone at birth. Made a good recovery.”

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine

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