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American Medical Center (Denver, Colo.)

 Organization

Biography

Phone call, 2-22-88 to AMC Cancer Research Center, Denver, director's office (Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society; f. 1904; name changed 1954 to American Medical Center; in 1970's renamed AMC Cancer Research Center and Hospital; in late 1970's/early 1980 reorg. as AMC Cancer Research Center; independent, nonprofit, research organ.; small hospital attached but function is primarily research) AMC Cancer Research Center Web site, Aug. 18, 2003 (In 1904, the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) was founded in Denver; JCRS evolved into AMC Cancer Research Center) NUCMC data from Univ. Wash. Lib. for AMC Cancer Research Center and Hospital. Seattle Ladies Auxiliary. Records, 1924-1978 (Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society; operated sanatorium nr. Denver, Colo., provided free care for tuberculosis patients; name changed in 1954 to American Medical Center; Denver; began accepting cancer patients)

Found in 209 Collections and/or Records:

75th Anniversary Celebration of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1979 September

 Item
Identifier: B063.03.0019.00019
Abstract

75th Anniversary Celebration of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Esther Winocur is pictured on the far left. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado.

Dates: 1979 September

AMC Auxiliary Volunteer Recruitment Influential Women, 1980 May

 File
Identifier: B002.04.0217.0035
Abstract

Photographs from American Medical Center (AMC) women's auxiliary volunteer recruitment.

Dates: 1980 May

AMC Barber Shop, after 1954

 Item
Identifier: B002.04.0215.0169.00001
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains a photo album, photographs, bulletin pages, drawings, lithographs, and contact sheets of the campus and buildings, patients and family, staff and volunteers, auxiliaries and conventions, and activities connected with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the AMC Cancer Research Center.

Dates: after 1954

AMC Beauty Parlor, after 1954

 Item
Identifier: B002.04.0215.0169.00002
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains a photo album, photographs, bulletin pages, drawings, lithographs, and contact sheets of the campus and buildings, patients and family, staff and volunteers, auxiliaries and conventions, and activities connected with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the AMC Cancer Research Center.

Dates: after 1954

AMC Cancer Research Center - Deep X-Ray Therapy: 250,000 volt machine, circa 1950-1970

 Item
Identifier: B002.04.0215.0171.00006
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains a photo album, photographs, bulletin pages, drawings, lithographs, and contact sheets of the campus and buildings, patients and family, staff and volunteers, auxiliaries and conventions, and activities connected with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the AMC Cancer Research Center.

Dates: circa 1950-1970

AMC Cancer Research Center Records

 Collection
Identifier: B360
Abstract In 1954 Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) changed its mission to cancer research and became the American Medical Center and later known as the AMC Cancer Research Center. AMC completely merged with the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 2014. Collection contains board of trustee's minutes, committee minutes, reports, AMC By-laws, name plates, posters, publications, programs, photographs, and scrapbooks related to the AMC Cancer Research Center from 1957 through 2012....
Dates: Other: 1904-2012

AMC Photographs, 1900-1979

 File
Identifier: B002.04.0217.0036
Abstract

American Medical Center (AMC) photographs.

Dates: 1900-1979

AMC Photographs, 1900-1979

 File
Identifier: B002.04.0217.0037
Abstract

American Medical Center (AMC) photographs.

Dates: 1900-1979

AMC Photographs, 1900-1979

 File
Identifier: B002.04.0217.0025
Abstract

American Medical Center (AMC) photographs.

Dates: 1900-1979

AMC Photographs, 1900-1979

 File
Identifier: B002.04.0217.0026
Abstract

American Medical Center (AMC) photographs.

Dates: 1900-1979

Additional filters:

Type
Archival Object 207
Collection 2
 
Subject
Jews 197
Photographs 197
Colorado 194
Denver (Colo.) 188
Hospitals 183
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Colfax Avenue (Colo.) 177
Sanatoriums 176
Tuberculosis 173
West Colfax (Denver, Colo.) 163
Spivak (Colo.) 155
Patients 65
Sanatoriums -- Colorado 49
Edgewater (Colo.) 48
Buildings 32
Entertainment events 31
Nurses 27
Women 25
Charities 23
Men 22
Physicians 22
Parties 16
Recreation 16
Costume 15
Cancer treatment and research 14
Dedications (Ceremonies) 14
Cancer 12
Dinners and dining 12
Anniversaries 10
Drama 10
Synagogues 10
Tents 10
Rehabilitation 9
Plaques (Flat objects) 8
Dairy farms 7
Kitchens 7
Halloween 6
Printing plants 6
Treatment and prognosis 6
X-rays 6
Beds 5
Cows 5
Entertainers 5
Barns 4
Corporate minutes 4
Jewish physicians 4
Medicine 4
Reading 4
Teachers 4
Boys 3
Food 3
Jewish women 3
Musicians 3
New York (N.Y.) 3
Occupational therapy 3
Torah scrolls 3
Boards of directors 2
Bookbinders 2
Butchers 2
Dentists 2
Indigenous peoples of North America 2
Jewish Refugees 2
Kosher food 2
Meat industry and trade 2
Medical care 2
Medical instruments and apparatus 2
Medical personnel and patient 2
Nursing 2
Paste-up (Printing) 2
Physical therapy 2
Picnics 2
Printers 2
Rabbis 2
Radiotherapy 2
Snapshots 2
Stores, Retail 2
Thermotherapy 2
Tuberculosis -- Hospitals -- Colorado -- Denver 2
Women patients 2
Albums (books) 1
Animals 1
Architectural drawings (Visual works) 1
Authors 1
Awards 1
Band musicians 1
Blackface entertainers 1
Books and reading 1
Buildings -- Design and construction 1
Business correspondence 1
Cancer -- Research -- Colorado 1
Comedians 1
Construction drawings 1
Cooks 1
Cookware 1
Cooperative societies 1
Corn 1
Correspondence 1
Dance 1
Dining rooms 1
Education 1
Ephemera (General) 1
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