AMC Cancer Research Center (Denver, Colo.)

Organization

Staff Only

Dates

Usage: 1980

Biography

Phone call, 2-22-88 to the Center, director's office (Jewish Consumptive 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 primarily research)

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

AMC Cancer Research Center Records

Collection

Identifier: B360

Abstract In 1954 Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) changed its mission to cancer research and became the American Medical Center and later known as the AMC Cancer Research Center. AMC completely merged with the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 2014. 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....

Dates: Other: 1904-2012

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / AMC Cancer Research Center Records

Dave Elman's Hobby Lobby Revue, between 1941-1948

Item

Identifier: B063.03.0035.00036

Abstract

Dave Elman's Hobby Lobby Revue being performed for patients at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). This Revue was a stage presentation of a radio program which was popular at the time. 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 Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.

Dates: between 1941-1948

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

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