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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.

A 10-month White girl sitting on steps to a walkway, a toy beside her.

“Evangeline Spear, 10 months, June 21, 1931”

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine

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