AMC Cancer Research Center (Denver, Colo.)
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 8 Collections and/or Records:
Campus Sculptures, circa 1990
Folder contains 20 color slides, one 3 x 4 negative and one negative strip with 5 photos. All of the photographs are of scultures on the AMC campus.
Dave Elman's Hobby Lobby Revue, between 1941-1948
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.
Executive and Staff Photographs, circa 1950-2000
Photographs of staff and executives at AMC spanninf 1950s-2004 with the majority of the photos falling in the 1990s
Fischman Memorial Building, circa 1980
Two black and white photographs of The M. D. Fischman Memorial Building. Both front views.
Jennie Spivak, 1964
Mrs. Jeannie Spivak on her 95th birthday in the hospital at AMC. Photograph where she is seated in a wheelchair looking at her birthday cake, two newspaper articles and copies of the press release from AMC are included.
Laboratory Photographs, circa 1920-2000
Micellaneous photogrpahs of laboratory spaces and medical personal. The majority of the photographs are from the second half of the century but at least one is 1910s-1920s based on the candlestick phone in the photo and three is likely 1930s.
Patient Activities Photographs, circa 1950-1970
Micellaneous black and white photos of patients engaged in various activities.
PR Photos: Laboratories, circa 1970-1980
Micellaneous public relations/advertising style photographs of laboratory operations and personnel. Many involve procedures done on mice.
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Cancer treatment and research 3
- Medical research personnel 3
- Photographs 3
- Laboratories 2
- Patients 2
- Animals 1
- Birthday parties 1
- Birthdays 1
- Cake 1
- Ceramics 1
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
- Colfax Avenue (Colo.) 1
- Colorado 1
- Copy negatives 1
- Denver (Colo.) 1
- Dinners and dining 1
- Dollmaking 1
- Drawings 1
- Embroidery 1
- Entertainers 1
- Entertainment events 1
- Games 1
- Health facilities 1
- Hobby Lobby (Radio program) 1
- Jews 1
- Laboratory animals 1
- Leatherwork 1
- Nurses 1
- Painting 1
- Photography 1
- Physicians 1
- Public relations 1
- Revues 1
- Sanatoriums 1
- Sculpture 1
- Slides (Photography) 1
- Snapshots 1
- Spivak (Colo.) 1
- Thanksgiving Day 1
- Tuberculosis 1
- West Colfax (Denver, Colo.) 1
- Women patients 1 + ∧ less