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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 females in cloche hats standing near a brick building. Miss Giles is in uniform.

“Miss Taylor, Miss Giles, (not Gun Hill)”

By the 1930s, the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service had 20 branches in Manhattan and the outer boroughs of New York City.

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine