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 3 Collections and/or Records:
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.
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.
Patient Activities Photographs, circa 1950-1970
Micellaneous black and white photos of patients engaged in various activities.
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- Patients 2
- Animals 1
- Birthday parties 1
- Birthdays 1
- Cake 1
- Ceramics 1
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
- Colfax Avenue (Colo.) 1
- Colorado 1
- Denver (Colo.) 1
- Dinners and dining 1
- Dollmaking 1
- Drawings 1
- Embroidery 1
- Entertainers 1
- Entertainment events 1
- Games 1
- Hobby Lobby (Radio program) 1
- Jews 1
- Leatherwork 1
- Painting 1
- Photographs 1
- Revues 1
- Sanatoriums 1
- Snapshots 1
- Spivak (Colo.) 1
- Thanksgiving Day 1
- Tuberculosis 1
- West Colfax (Denver, Colo.) 1
- Women patients 1 + ∧ less