National Library of Medicine

Digital Gallery

Discover...

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.

Baby in a crocheted cap sitting on a saddled pony.

“Louis Columbo. His mother was one of our prenatal patients.”

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine