Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)
Found in 938 Collections and/or Records:
Board of Directors of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1930-1940
Board of Directors of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Seven men and one woman stand on the steps of a building. Rabbi Charles Kauvar stands second from the right and all others are unidentified. 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.
Bob Hope at a Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Convention, circa 1945
Bob Hope at a Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Convention, circa 1945
Bookbinding at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1940s
Postcard of patients learning bookbinding as part of their rehabilitation 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 of Denver.
Box 364, circa 1906-1920
2 framed black and white photographs. One shows two patients in bed with a nurse and doctor. The other shows a patient on an examination table with a nurse and a doctor.
Box 365, between 1910-1920
2 framed black and white photographs. One shows a patient outside in a wheelchair with nurse. The other shows a view from outside of the campus building with Model T's.
Box 366, 1915
2 framed balck and white photographs. The first shows three patients in hospital beds being attended to by a nurse. The second shows a patient getting dental work with a long instrument by a dentists and a nurse wearing goggles.
Box 367, between 1910-1920
2 framed black and white photographs. One shows a patient in a bed with a nurse holding a gas mask connected to a large metal tank over his face. The other shows two patients in robes standing behind another patient sitting in a wheelchair.
Box 368, between 1910-1925
2 black and white photographs. Patient sitting on bed in a ward with windows open with a nurse beside him. Patient on an examiniation table with a doctor and nurse.
Box 369, circa 1930
2 framed black and white photos. One shows a large number of patients in beds outside receiving heliotheorpy with a nurse attending to them. The other shows a female patient on a table with a doctor and nurse attending to her.