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Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)

 Organization

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

AMC Cancer Research Center - Deep X-Ray Therapy: 250,000 volt machine, circa 1950-1970

 Item
Identifier: B002.04.0215.0171.00006
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains a photo album, photographs, bulletin pages, drawings, lithographs, and contact sheets of the campus and buildings, patients and family, staff and volunteers, auxiliaries and conventions, and activities connected with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the AMC Cancer Research Center.

Dates: circa 1950-1970

Dr. Virginia Downing (Chief of Cancer Chemotherapy) and Dr. Chamoun D. Chamoun discussing patient condition, after 1955

 Item
Identifier: B002.04.0215.0171.00001
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains a photo album, photographs, bulletin pages, drawings, lithographs, and contact sheets of the campus and buildings, patients and family, staff and volunteers, auxiliaries and conventions, and activities connected with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the AMC Cancer Research Center.

Dates: after 1955

JCRS Doctor administers cancer treatment, after 1955

 Item
Identifier: B002.04.0215.0171.00012
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains a photo album, photographs, bulletin pages, drawings, lithographs, and contact sheets of the campus and buildings, patients and family, staff and volunteers, auxiliaries and conventions, and activities connected with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the AMC Cancer Research Center.

Dates: after 1955

Patient Getting X-rayed at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1930-1950

 Item
Identifier: B063.03.0035.00083
Abstract

A technician prepping a patient for x-rays 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. The sanatorium was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.

Dates: between 1930-1950