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Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)

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Patients on a Sun Deck at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1940-1950

 Item
Identifier: B063.03.0019.00046
Abstract

Patients laying in beds and seated in chairs on a sun deck of the Texas Pavilion for Women Building 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. It was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside Denver.

Dates: between 1940-1950