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 2 Collections and/or Records:

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

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B002, Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Records / Photographs / Box 215 / Staff - Cancer Treatments - Modern

Patient and Helping Hand, 1954-1969

Item

Identifier: B002.04.0215.0075.00001

Abstract

A female patient laying on a bed while her right hand and wrist and are held by an unidentified woman. This photograph was taken at the American Medical Center, formerly known as the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish working men along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. It was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.

Dates: 1954-1969

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B002, Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Records / Photographs / Box 215 / Patient Activities - Patient and Helping Hand

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Subject: Women patients X