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Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research

 Organization

Biography

The Eleanor Roosevelt Institute was est. 1959 as part of the American Medical Center, Lakewood, 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 University 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.

Found in 109 Collections and/or Records:

Mary Ann Tooley Merrill, circa 1990

 Item
Identifier: U158.03.0048.00124
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Contains photographs, color and black and white, of individuals and items related to the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research.

Dates: circa 1990

Outdoor Reception, between 1980-1999

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Identifier: U158.03.0142.00050
Abstract

A crowd of people sits during an outdoor reception. Frame 35: Dr. Theodore Puck stands with two other men before an audience. Frame 36: Dr. David Patterson stands among crowd.

Dates: between 1980-1999

Outdoor Reception, between 1980-1999

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Identifier: U158.03.0142.00052
Abstract

Two men stand with their backs to the camera. A woman points as a girl with down syndrome looks on. Frame 8: Female child with down syndrome looks at her reflection in glass doors.

Dates: between 1980-1999

Philip J. Ritter and Theodore Kauss, circa 1990

 Item
Identifier: U158.03.0048.00123
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Contains photographs, color and black and white, of individuals and items related to the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research.

Dates: circa 1990

Sid Altman Event, 1998 May 05

 Item
Identifier: U158.03.0048.00108

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