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Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (Denver, Colo.)

 Organization

Biography

Est. 1959 as part of the American Medical Center, Denver, Colo. Ground breaking ceremony held Nov. 16, 1959, but construction was never completed. In 1961, as a project of the Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Foundation, Inc., it became part of the the University of Colorado Medical Center (renamed the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 1979). The Foundation also established two other research centers (no longer in existence) at the Universitty of Utah Medical Shcool, and the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa. The Foundation and the Denver Institute later merged. In 2003 the Institute became part of the University of Denver, under a shortened name, the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (ERI). Do not confuse with the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (presumably of Hyde Park, N.Y.) founded 1972 as a successor to the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation, which initiated and cosponsored projects to celebrate and perpetuate the values of Eleanor Roosevelt, esp. in fields of peace, youth, and social policy, and which merged with the FDR Four Freedoms Foundation to form the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in 1979.

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Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Staff Members at Rockies Baseball Game, 1994 June 24

 Item
Identifier: U158.03.0047.00119
Abstract Contact prints of 35 millimeter roll of film. Frame 2: Two baseball players shake hands while Rockies mascot and three other men stand nearby. Frame 3: Man and baseball player shake hands while Rockies mascot, second player and another man stand nearby. Frame 4: Baseball player offers hand to man while Rockies mascot, second baseball player and another man stand nearby. Frame 5: Baseball player and man shake hands while Rockies mascot, second baseball player and another man stand nearby....
Dates: 1994 June 24

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