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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.

8 White, female nurses in uniform dresses with double front pockets and neck ties in front of a building.

“Greenwich Center, the staff”

By the 1930s, Henry Street's Visiting Nurse Service had 20 branches in Manhattan and the outer boroughs of New York City, employing 300 nurses.

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine