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Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)

 Organization

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Patients in Costume with a Cow at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1940-1945

 Item
Identifier: B063.03.0035.00094
Abstract Three unidentified male patients in costume standing around a cow as an unidentified female patient sits on a stool milking the cow at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). They may have been part of a party or play. 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: between 1940-1945