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Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)

 Organization

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Dr. Charles Spivak at His Desk With Dictaphone, between 1915-1923

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Identifier: B063.03.0036.00030
Abstract

Dr. Charles Spivak sits at his desk and speaks into a dictaphone. Dr. Spivak was a founder 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: between 1915-1923