Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)
Found in 5019 Collections and/or Records:
Biochemical Laboratory at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1921
Interior of the Biochemical Laboratory in the I. Rude Building, on the campus 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.
Blank Application for Admittance to JCRS
Blank application for admission to JCRS. Jacob Goldstein's name is printed on the back of the application.
Blazing the Trail: An Early History of Denver’s Jewish Community, 2009
Brief description of several early Jewish leaders of commerce, philanthropy, religion, and community as well as several Jewish lawyers, doctors, merchants, and politicians in Colorado.
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 1, 1934-1953
Henry J. Schwartz was born in Russia and came to New York with his parents. He settled in Denver in 1895 and married Mollie K. Kohn in 1898. Henry Schwartz was an original member of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society board of directors and served as president and vice president of the JCRS. He was also a member of the Town Club. Much of the scrapbook has clipplings on the JCRS, but also on politics, Temple Emanuel, and obituaries.
Box 43 (Reading Room Exhibit Materials), 2014 - 2018
Box 311: Sanatoriums/Annual Reports (Boundwith Copies), 1905 - 1911
Boundwith including volumes 1-5, 1905-11, of The Sanatorium.