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AMC Cancer Research Center (Denver, Colo.)

 Organization

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 4 Collections and/or Records:

Box 38, circa 1930-circa 2000

 File — Box B360.05.0038: Series B360.05 [Barcode: U186023258761]
Identifier: B360.05.0038
Abstract

Oversized photographs including PR scenes of patients being wlecomed and leaving, doctors looking at x-rays, doctor meeting with patient, patients learning leatherworking, interior building shots, headshots, some landscape elevations and building drawings. Also the charter for the Auxiliary Guild of Baltimore. Print of girl lighting candle and printer mockups for a new years card using the image and another card mock up with an image of a man with a shofar.

Dates: circa 1930-circa 2000

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

Patient: Francis E. Rudolph, 1948-1958

 File
Identifier: B360.03.0034.0022
Abstract

Personal belonings of Mr. Francis E. Randolph including some photographs of women (unidentified), Catholic sait medals (2), cards for a cab company, diners, hunting and fishing permits (all from Kansas City area) and a selective service registration card. Letter from AMC replying to Mr. Rudolph that they sent his medical summary from his time at JCRS with tuberculosis to his doctor as requested.

Dates: 1948-1958

Staff and Patient Photographs, circa 1950-1990s

 File
Identifier: B360.03.0032.0023
Abstract

Folder containing 17 miscellaneous and one contact sheet photographs from the AMC collection of staff and patients; all are in balck and white exceot one. Most of the pictures are 1950s-1960s but one appears to be 1990s.

Dates: circa 1950-1990s

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Tuberculosis 3
Physicians 2
Buildings -- Design and construction 1
Catholics 1
Charters and articles of incorporation 1