American Medical Center (Denver, Colo.)

Organization

Staff Only

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 1 Collection or Record:

Bob Hope at a Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Convention, circa 1945

Item

Identifier: B063.03.0035.00037

Abstract Bob Hope performing for patients at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society's (JCRS) Convention. Tony Romano, Jerry Colonna and Vera Vague (stage name of actress Barbara Jo Anderson) are also pictured and the event was held in the Mary Harris Auditorium at the JCRS. 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. The sanatorium was...

Dates: circa 1945

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Health Care and Philanthropy / Box 35

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