American Medical Center (Denver, Colo.)
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 16 Collections and/or Records:
AMC Cancer Research Center Records
Banquet for Auxiliaries and Board Members of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and American Medical Center, between 1950-1970
Banquet for Auxiliaries and Board Members of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and American Medical Center, between 1950-1970
Banquet for JCRS and AMC Auxiliaries, between 1940-1970
Box 1, 1957-1985
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. The American Medical Center is the successor to JCRS. Additionally, some older material relating to JCRS is also in the collection dating back to 1904.
Box 2, 1985-1992
AMC Cancer Research Center was the successor to the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society. Box contains AMC Cancer Research Center Board of Trustees minutes, committee minutes, reports and associated materials.
Cancer Treatment at the AMC Cancer Research Center and Hospital, between 1950-1970
Cancer Treatment at the AMC Cancer Research Center and Hospital, between 1950-1970
Dr. Charles Spivak's Gravestone, 1978
Dr. Charles Spivak's gravestone. The stone says: ''Dr. Charles David Spivak, Dec. 25, 1861 - Oct. 16, 1927, Articulated skeleton willed to and preserved by the Hebrew University, Jerusalem Palestine.'' The inscription is repeated in Hebrew.
Dr. Isadore Bronfin, circa 1920
Formal portrait of Dr. Isadore Bronfin.
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- Archival Object 15
- Collection 1
- Subject
- Hospitals 15
- Photographs 14
- Colorado 13
- Denver (Colo.) 13
- Jews 13
- Colfax Avenue (Colo.) 11
- Spivak (Colo.) 11
- West Colfax (Denver, Colo.) 10
- Cancer 9
- Cancer treatment and research 9
- Sanatoriums 9
- Tuberculosis 9
- Charities 6
- Buildings 4
- Tents 4
- Corporate minutes 3
- Dinners and dining 3
- Entertainment events 3
- Patients 3
- Treatment and prognosis 3
- Albums (Books) 1
- Cancer -- Research -- Colorado 1
- Fund raising 1
- Hospitals -- Colorado -- Denver 1
- Jewish hospitals -- Colorado -- Denver 1
- Nurses 1
- Publications 1
- Radiotherapy 1
- Thermotherapy 1
- Tuberculosis -- Hospitals -- Colorado -- Denver 1 + ∧ less