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Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)

 Organization

Found in 475 Collections and/or Records:

Portrait of Dr. Charles Spivak, between 1915-1928

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Identifier: B063.03.0036.00032
Abstract

Dr. Charles Spivak. Dr. Spivak was a founder of 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 1915-1928

Portrait of Dr. Charles Spivak, 1926 September 10

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Identifier: B063.03.0019.00084
Abstract Portrait of Denver physician Dr. Charles Spivak, who served as executive secretary of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) from 1904 until his death in 1929. Dr. Spivak, a Jewish immigrant who had fled Russia in 1881 because of his revolutionary socialist activities, received his medical degree from the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1890. He and his family moved to Denver in 1896. Know as the ''guiding genius'' of the JCRS, he was referred to affectionately as ''Papa...
Dates: 1926 September 10

Portrait of Dr. Louis I. Miller, between 1900-1930

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Identifier: B063.03.0019.00010
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Copy photograph of a portrait of Dr. Louis I. Miller.

Dates: between 1900-1930

Portrait of Dr. William S. Kline, Medical Director of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1950-1960

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Identifier: B063.03.0011.00044
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Dr. William S. Kline, Medical Director of 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 1950-1960

Portrait of Israel Friedman, Executive Director of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1941

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Identifier: B063.03.0011.00039
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Portrait of Israel Friedman, former Executive Director of 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: 1941

Portrait of Israel Friedman, Executive Director of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1941

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Identifier: B063.03.0011.00040
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Portrait of Israel Friedman, former Executive Director of 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: 1941

Portrait of Israel Friedman, Executive Director of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1941

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Identifier: B063.03.0011.00041
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Israel Friedman, former Executive Director of 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: 1941

Portrait of Jacob S. Potofsky, between 1930-1960

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Identifier: B063.03.0035.00026
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Jacob S. Potofsky, President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Potofsky was a personality and supporter of 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 1930-1960

Portrait of Leona Stroud, Technician of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1940-1960

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Identifier: B063.03.0011.00045
Abstract

Leona Stroud, a technician of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society. 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 1940-1960

Portrait of Louis Nizer, 1943 April

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Identifier: B063.03.0019.00030
Abstract

Louis Nizer of New York City. Nizer was born in 1902 and passed away in 1994 at the age of 92. He was a noted Jewish-American trial lawyer and senior partner of the law firm Phillips Nizer Benjamin Krim & Ballon and authored a number of books - one of which was titled ''What to Do with Germany.'' He also wrote the forward to the Warren Commission report that investigated President John F. Kennedy's and the resulting conspiracy theories that still surround it.

Dates: 1943 April