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Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)

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Steam Shovel and Group at Groundbreaking Ceremony, between 1920-1925

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Identifier: B063.03.0036.00001
Abstract The participants of the groundbreaking ceremony on the campus of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). The participants stand by a steam shovel and two men and three women are on the shovel. Dr. Isadore Bronfin stands second from the left and Dr. Charles Spivak stands in the middle to the right of a man holding a shovel. 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...
Dates: between 1920-1925