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 23 Collections and/or Records:

Presentation of Donation to the American Medical Center, 1962

Item

Identifier: B063.03.0036.00007

Abstract A donation check being made to the American Medical Center (AMC). Ben Autonoff, Myron Emrich and an unidentified woman (possibly Ida Riskin) are in the photograph. AMC was located on the grounds of the former Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (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 located on West...

Dates: 1962

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Health Care and Philanthropy / Box 36

Senator Edwin C. Johnson with an Unidentified Man, between 1937-1955

Item

Identifier: B063.03.0035.00024

Abstract Senator Edwin C. Johnson with an unidentified man. Johnson is seated at a table and is handing a check to the other man. Johnson served as Governor of the State of Colorado, United States Senator and a personality associated with 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 workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. The sanatorium...

Dates: between 1937-1955

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

Simon Zuriat with Noah Allen, between 1950-1970

Item

Identifier: B063.03.0036.00017

Abstract

Simon Zuriat, man of the year with Noah W. Allen.

Dates: between 1950-1970

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Health Care and Philanthropy / Box 36

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American Medical Center (Denver, Colo.)

Biography

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Presentation of Donation to the American Medical Center, 1962

Senator Edwin C. Johnson with an Unidentified Man, between 1937-1955

Simon Zuriat with Noah Allen, between 1950-1970

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