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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.

Nurse in coat and cloche hat standing in foot-high drifts of snow, buildings in distance.

“Mrs. Latham one snowy morning.”

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine