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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.

An 11-month White girl standing on a street in 1930s New York, signs for businesses in background.

“Evangeline Spear, 11 months. Not taken in our district.”

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine

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