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Detail of model June Cox's hair. lifestyle

This Is What the Ideal Woman Looked Like in the 1930s

Student nurses at New York's Roosevelt Hospital. lifestyle

Celebrate Nurses With a LIFE Cover Story on Nursing in the 1930s

Continuous-flow bath is the best method for calming excited mental cases. With their bodies greased, the patients can remain in the baths for hours, gradually fall asleep." history

Strangers to Reason: LIFE Inside a Psychiatric Hospital, 1938

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LIFE Goes to a County Fair, 1938

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