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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.

Two, White female nurses in cloche hats and overcoats standing on a sidewalk near a building.

“Mrs. Knox, Miss Eichenlaub”

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine