Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)

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 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...