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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 White female nurse standing in the snow in front of row homes in the city.

“Mrs. Trumper leaves the home of the patients on right”

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine