Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)

Abstract Bob Hope performing for patients at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society's (JCRS) Convention. Tony Romano, Jerry Colonna and Vera Vague (stage name of actress Barbara Jo Anderson) are also pictured and the event was held in the Mary Harris Auditorium at the 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...

Abstract Bob Hope performing for patients at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society's (JCRS) Convention. Tony Romano, Jerry Colonna and Vera Vague (stage name of actress Barbara Jo Anderson) are also pictured and the event was held in the Mary Harris Auditorium at the 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...

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The Davou Trio playing instruments 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 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.

Abstract On the stage are H. J. Schwartz, S. Rosenthal, Philip Hillkowitz, Malcolm G. Wyer, Horace Gerstein, H. Robinson, Postmaster Frank L. Dodge (standing), H. H. Frumess, J. B. Pizer, D. H. Krohn, and Mrs. I. J. Kolinsky for the celebration of the dedication of the Post Office, Library, road, addition to the Nurses' Home, and Co-operative store. A children's band is seated in front of the stage. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant...

Abstract Newspaper clipping of a photograph of a traveling theater company's performance at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) in August 1929. Caption misidentifies director Maurice Schwarz's New York company, the Yiddish Art Theatre, as the [by-then defunct] Jewish Art Theatre. JCRS Sanatorium superintendent Herman Schwatt, M.D. is shown in the upper row, second from left. The newpaper clipping is from the Jewish Daily Forward, and was found in a scrapbook created by singer and actor...

Abstract Isaac Victor, a violinist from Russia who was a patient at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS), plays the violin. He was admitted for the first time in 1914 and was re-admitted in 1922 where he died. His patient numbers were 2859, 3912, 4537, and 6133 and this portrait was found inside his violin case. 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...

Abstract May Arno Schwatt and her traveling theater company. May Arno Schatt was the sister-in-law of Dr. Charles Spivak, a founder and executive director of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Schwatt and her theater company performed at the JCRS. She was born in Pitava, Russia to Saul and Chaya Shamus Charsky. Her mother died when she was young and she immigrated to America with a sister in the early 1880s to join her father and older sister Jennie Charsky at the Rosenheym Jewish...

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Mischa Elman performing for patients at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society's (JCRS) Mary Harris Auditorium. 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.