Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Bed Endowment Plaques of the JCRS
Item
Identifier: B002.04.0215.0178.00001
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:
1904-1979
Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Records
Collection
Identifier: B002
Abstract
The Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society was known as the JCRS and was founded in Denver, Colorado in 1904 as a non-sectarian sanatorium to treat tuberculosis (TB) patients, free of charge, in all stages of the disease. The society was one of the leading tuberculosis sanatoria in the country at the turn of the century founded by a group of immigrant Eastern European Jewish men, many of whom were themselves victims of TB. Headed by Dr. Charles Spivak as Secretary (1904-1927) and by Dr....
Dates:
1897-1989; Majority of material found within 1904-1973
Perpetual bed endowment in memory of Tillie Lesser by her husband Leo Lesser, undated
Item
Identifier: B002.04.0215.0178.00003
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:
undated