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Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)

 Organization

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Appreciation and plaque for the New York Ladies' Auxiliary at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Hospital, undated

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Identifier: B002.04.0215.0178.00004
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

Bed Endowment Plaques of the JCRS

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Identifier: B002.04.0215.0178.00001
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: 1904-1979

Early JCRS Patient, circa 1901

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Identifier: B063.08.0008.00001
Abstract

Formal studio portrait of Satuloff, an early patient at the Jewish Consumptive Relief Society in Denver, Colorado.

Dates: circa 1901

Entrance to JCRS Hospital, circa 1950

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Identifier: B002.04.0216.0001.00002
Abstract

The entrance gates to the JCRS boasts an elevation of 5450, just over a mile high.

Dates: circa 1950

JCRS Campus, circa 1940

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Identifier: B002.04.0345.0002.00001
Abstract

Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) campus as viewed from the air. 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. In 1954 the institution changed its mission to cancer research and became the American Medical Center (AMC Cancer Research Center).

Dates: circa 1940

JCRS Patient #1773 See #2398 Israel Fleischman, undated

 File
Identifier: B002.01.0104.0019
Abstract

JCRS patient #1773. This file is undated and contains one note, no additional documents.

Dates: undated

Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Records

 Collection
Identifier: B002
Abstract The Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society was known as the JCRS and was founded in Denver, Colorado in 1904 as a non-sectarian sanatorium to treat tuberculosis (TB) patients, free of charge, in all stages of the disease. The society was one of the leading tuberculosis sanatoria in the country at the turn of the century founded by a group of immigrant Eastern European Jewish men, many of whom were themselves victims of TB. Headed by Dr. Charles Spivak as Secretary (1904-1927) and by Dr....
Dates: 1897-1989; Majority of material found within 1904-1973

Main Building With Tower of Hope at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1922

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Identifier: B002.04.0345.0002.00004
Abstract

The main building for men with the Tower of Hope at 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 working men along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. It was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.

Dates: circa 1922

Map Showing Numbers and Origins of Patients, circa 1937

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Identifier: B002.04.0345.0006.00001
Abstract

Map of the United States drawn on cardboard indicates the locality by state and country and the numbers of patients treated since the opening of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society in Denver, Colorado from September 8, 1904 to October 1, 1937. The sanatorium treated 7502 patients by 1937. Map includes patients from Canada and Panama.

Dates: circa 1937

Oral History Interview with Ben Blumberg, 1977 November 18

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Identifier: B098.05.0008.00003
Abstract

Topics covered: Family history, life in Denver, working for the Rocky Mountain News and starting the West End Press; B'nai B'rith and several other organizations: JCC, JCRS, Rose Medical Center, Allied Jewish Federation. Index in file B098.18.0022.0008.

Dates: 1977 November 18