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Texas Pavilion for Women (Lakewood, Colo.)

 Organization

Biography

Its inscriptions: Cornice (The Texas Pavilion for Women); cornerstone (Erected by the citizens of Texas, 5687 - 1927); recent RMCAD sign viewed November 17, 2009 (Texas Building). Short walking tour, 2008: #1 (Texas Building ... In 1927, the Texas Pavilion for Women opened to house the women's dormitory. In 1954 it became a treatment center for patients with advanced cancer.) Use for: Texas Building, Texas Pavilion.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Limousine in Front of Texas Pavilion for Women at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1940-1950

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Identifier: B002.04.0215.0049.00001
Abstract

An unidentified woman shakes hands with a physician in front of a limousine belonging to the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). The limousine is parked in front of the Texas Pavilion for Women Building. 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. It was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.

Dates: 1940-1950

Patients on a Sun Deck at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1940-1950

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Identifier: B063.03.0019.00046
Abstract

Patients laying in beds and seated in chairs on a sun deck of the Texas Pavilion for Women Building at 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. It was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside Denver.

Dates: between 1940-1950

Snowball Fight at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1937 February 20

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Identifier: B002.04.0215.0068.00001
Abstract

Three women patients participate in a snowball fight at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). The women are playing in front of the Texas Pavilion for Women building. 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: 1937 February 20