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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.

Small stone bridge arching over snowy banks of a narrow stream, apartments on the right.

“Bronx Blvd, north of Gun Hill Road.”

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine