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Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)

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Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:

Biochemical Laboratory at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1924

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Identifier: B063.03.0003.00033
Abstract

Interior of the Biochemical Laboratory, in the I. Rude Building, on the campus of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Three staff members work at lab benches. 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: circa 1924

Biochemical Laboratory at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1924

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Identifier: B063.03.0003.00034
Abstract Interior of the Biochemical Laboratory, in the I. Rude Building, on the campus of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Three staff members work at lab benches; at left, a man draws blood from a seated woman's arm. 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...
Dates: circa 1924

Biochemical Laboratory at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1921

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Identifier: B063.03.0003.00037
Abstract

Interior of the Biochemical Laboratory in the I. Rude Building, on the campus of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). 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: circa 1921

Complete Financial and Statistical Report of the JCRS for 1924, 1925

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Identifier: B002.05.01.0199.0022.00001
Abstract Report of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) annual operations and finances for the period beginning January 1, 1924, and ending December 31, 1924; Dr. Philip Hillkowitz was the Society's President, and C.D. Spivak was the Secretary. Includes an obituary and memorial for Max D. Neusteter, 1874-1925, patients' writings, and a landscape architectural development plan created by S. R. De Boer. Also includes two medical papers, one devoted to children with tuberculosis. Also includes...
Dates: 1925

Dedication tablet showing appreciation for JCRS building contributors, undated

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Identifier: B002.04.0215.0178.00006
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains a photo album, photographs, bulletin pages, drawings, lithographs, and contact sheets of the campus and buildings, patients and family, staff and volunteers, auxiliaries and conventions, and activities connected with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the AMC Cancer Research Center.

Dates: undated

Dr. Charles Spivak and Jennie Charsky in Philadelphia, 1892 September

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Identifier: B250.01.0003.00001
Abstract Dr. Charles David Spivak and his fiancee, Jennie Charsky, pose for a studio photograph in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in September 1892. The picture was taken the day before Jennie left to attend college at Cornell University. Dr. Charles Spivak was the longtime secretary of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). After the couple moved to Colorado in 1896, Jennie completed her college degree at the University of Denver. She later taught Russian language classes at the University for...
Dates: 1892 September

Early Tent Laboratory and Dispensary at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1905

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Identifier: B002.04.0215.0034.00001
Abstract A medical services tent at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) Sanatorium near Edgewater, just west of Denver, Colorado, was dedicated on March 26, 1905. A sign on the door reads: ''Laboratory and Dispensary.'' The sign over the door reads: ''Minsker Independent Benevolent Ass'n. New York City.'' The sign to the right of the door reads: 'This tent erected and furnished by the Minsker Independent Benevolent Association of New York.'' Early patients and staff were housed in Tucker...
Dates: 1905

Eighteenth Annual Report of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1922

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Identifier: B002.05.01.0199.0017.00001
Abstract Report of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) annual operations and finances for the period beginning January 1, 1921, and ending December 31, 1921; Dr. Philip Hillkowitz was the Society's President, and C.D. Spivak was the Secretary. Includes statistical data about patients for 1904-1921 and a list of donors. Most of the report consists of an obituary and memorial for Dr. O. M. Shere, 1878-1922. Also includes a portrait of O. M. Shere, who was chairman of the JCRS Medical...
Dates: 1922

Eighth Annual Report, 1911, 1912

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Identifier: B002.05.01.0199.0008.00001
Abstract Report of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) annual meeting on November 10-12, 1912, and its operations and finances for the period beginning January 1, 1911, and ending December 31, 1911; Dr. Philip Hillkowitz was the Society's President, and C.D. Spivak was the Secretary. The Secretary's report indicates that 269 patients were treated in 1911, and includes data about patients treated from 1904-1911. Includes images of the facility, statistical data about the patients (including...
Dates: 1912

Eleventh and Twelfth Annual Reports for the Years 1914-1915, 1916

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Identifier: B002.05.01.0199.0011.00001
Abstract Reports issued in combined form for the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) annual meetings on May 20, 1915 and April 23, 1916; Dr. Philip Hillkowitz was the Society's President, and C.D. Spivak the Secretary. The Secretary's report indicated that 2,451 patients were treated from September 8, 1904 to December 31, 1915. Includes summaries of expenditures, portraits of national officers, and a list of all subscribers and donors. Published as Volume 10, Number 3 and 4 (July-September and...
Dates: 1916