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3. “Mother’s club,” 1930s

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A nurse from the Henry Street Settlement with a parent education class known as a “mother’s club,” New York, 1930s

Courtesy National Library of Medicine

Neighborhood women organized in Mothers’ Clubs to share experiences and hear advice from the professional nurses of the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service.