"Un bureau de norrices" [wet-nurses' "office"], from Hygiène et mèdicine des deux sexes, black-and-white engraving by Duesnes, drawing by P. Kauffman, circa 1885
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Shows the outer doors of a French establishment offering the services of wet-nurses, two of whom are seated with infants on benches under windows with the signs "Nourrices sur lieux" and "Nourrices de province." A woman in elegant street clothes stands nearby, talking to a wet-nurse.
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