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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.

10 White females, 8 in nurse uniforms with cuffs and collars, neck ties, and 2 in dress suits.

“Gun Hill Center, the staff”

The Gun Hill Center, located in the Bronx, New York, was one of 20 branches the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service operated in New York City in the 1930s. Over 300 nurses worked to deliver care to neighborhoods in Manhattan and the outer boroughs.

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine