Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Bob Hope at a Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Convention, circa 1945
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Identifier: B002.04.0215.0116.00001
Abstract
Bob Hope performing for patients at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society's (JCRS) Convention. Tony Romano, Jerry Colonna and Vera Vague (stage name of actress Barbara Jo Anderson) are also pictured and the event was held in the Mary Harris Auditorium at the JCRS. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish working men along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. It was located on West...
Dates:
circa 1945
Bob Hope at a Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Convention, circa 1945
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Identifier: B063.03.0035.00037
Abstract
Bob Hope performing for patients at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society's (JCRS) Convention. Tony Romano, Jerry Colonna and Vera Vague (stage name of actress Barbara Jo Anderson) are also pictured and the event was held in the Mary Harris Auditorium at the 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...
Dates:
circa 1945
Famous Troupe Amuses the Sick at a Famous Sanatorium, 1929 August 4
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Identifier: B296.01.0001.00002.00023
Abstract
Newspaper clipping of a photograph of a traveling theater company's performance at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) in August 1929. Caption misidentifies director Maurice Schwarz's New York company, the Yiddish Art Theatre, as the [by-then defunct] Jewish Art Theatre. JCRS Sanatorium superintendent Herman Schwatt, M.D. is shown in the upper row, second from left. The newpaper clipping is from the Jewish Daily Forward, and was found in a scrapbook created by singer and actor...
Dates:
1929 August 4
May Arno Schwatt Theater Company, 1914
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Identifier: B296.01.0001.00001.00036.00001
Abstract
May Arno Schwatt and her traveling theater company. May Arno Schatt was the sister-in-law of Dr. Charles Spivak, a founder and executive director of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Schwatt and her theater company performed at the JCRS. She was born in Pitava, Russia to Saul and Chaya Shamus Charsky. Her mother died when she was young and she immigrated to America with a sister in the early 1880s to join her father and older sister Jennie Charsky at the Rosenheym Jewish...
Dates:
1914
Mischa Elman Performing at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1945 January 15
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Identifier: B063.03.0035.00038
Abstract
Mischa Elman performing for patients at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society's (JCRS) Mary Harris Auditorium. 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:
1945 January 15