Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)
Organization
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Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society's Minstrel Show, 1928
Item
Identifier: B063.03.0003.00024
Abstract
Patients perform in the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society's (JCRS) Minstrel Show in 1928. Several of the performers wear blackface, a style of theatrical makeup that was popular at the time. 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:
1928