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Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)

 Organization

Found in 571 Collections and/or Records:

JCRS Patient #3723 and #2632 Ethel Lee Byrd, 1913 August 30 - 1917 May 21

 File
Identifier: B002.01.0112.0157
Abstract

JCRS Patient #3723 and #2632. Patient application, correspondence, handwritten letters, receipts, and bills.

Dates: 1913 August 30 - 1917 May 21
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B002, Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Records / Patient Records / Box 112 - Patient admit dates: January 1916-August 1916

Jennie Batchofsky's Application for Admission to JCRS, 1911 September 14

 Item
Identifier: B002.01.0104.0154.00001
Abstract Application form of Jennie Batchofsky for admission as a patient to the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society. She was age 27 at the time of the application. She was born in Russia and immigrated to the United States in 1905. She lived in Brooklyn, New York when she contracted tuberculosis. She had been sick for two years upon her arrival to Denver, Colorado. She was married and had one child. Her occupation states she worked as a housewife. She was in the Metropolitan Hospital of New York...
Dates: 1911 September 14
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B002, Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Records / Patient Records / Box 104 - Patient admit dates: March 1911-November 1911 / JCRS Patient #1965 Jennie Batchofsky

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
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Records

Joseph Loebel's Application for Admission to JCRS, 1910 March 25

 Item
Identifier: B002.01.0102.0104.00001
Abstract Application form of Joseph Loebel for admission as a patient to the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society. He was age 26 at the time of the application. He immigrated to the U.S. from Austria in 1902. He lived in Hartford, Connecticut for 8 years where he contracted tuberculosis. He has also been sick for 1 year. He was married and had one child. He also belonged to the Hartford Lodge #287 O.B.A. The verso of the application states he was admitted on May 11, 1910 and left on february 2,...
Dates: 1910 March 25
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B002, Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Records / Patient Records / Box 102: (Patients #1241-1497) [Admit Dates: October 1909-July 1910]

Julius Cohen's Application for Admission to JCRS, 1911 June 5

 Item
Identifier: B002.01.0104.0164.00001
Abstract Application form of Julius Cohen for admission as a patient to the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society. He was age 36 at the time of the application. He was born in the United States. He lived in New York City when he contracted tuberculosis. He had been sick for three years and five months upon his arrival to Denver, Colorado. He was married. His occupation states he worked as an engineer. He was in Ray Brook Hospital in New York City before applying for JCRS. The verso of the application...
Dates: 1911 June 5
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B002, Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Records / Patient Records / Box 104 - Patient admit dates: March 1911-November 1911 / JCRS Patient #1846 Julius Cohen

Leon Stein: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival, 2013

 Item
Identifier: B354.01.0002.00013
Abstract

Art book with gray paper cover written and designed by Kyle Mead, a student in Martin Mendelsberg's Visual Sequencing class at Rocky Mountain School of Art and Design. Based on the life of Leon Stein, tuberculosis patient at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society.

Dates: 2013
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B354, Martin Mendelsberg Students' Art Books / Visual Sequencing Class Books / Box 2

Leon Stein: A story of love, family and survival, 2013

 Item
Identifier: B354.01.0005.00014
Abstract

Art book with grey softcover, white pages and black type; written, designed and created by Kyle Mead a student in Martin Mendelsberg's Visual Sequencing class at Rocky Mountain School of Art and Design. Inspired by the files of Leon Stein and Louis Wolf, tuberculosis patients at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, #7996 & #7464.

Dates: 2013
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B354, Martin Mendelsberg Students' Art Books / Visual Sequencing Class Books / Box 5

Letter addresses to C.D. Spivak, 1916 September 17

 Item
Identifier: B002.01.0104.0146.00050
Abstract

Letter addressed to C.D. Spivak. The letter is handwritten in Yiddish.

Dates: 1916 September 17
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B002, Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Records / Patient Records / Box 104 - Patient admit dates: March 1911-November 1911 / JCRS Patient #1959 Rosche Schwartz

Letter from A. Stitch to C.D. Spivak, 1912 February 3

 Item
Identifier: B002.01.0104.0159.00017
Abstract

Handwritten letter from A. Stitch to C.D. Spivak. Stitch enclosed a money order for $5.73. Stitch asks Spivak to send the trunk to S. Schmalansky in New York and send the key to him.

Dates: 1912 February 3
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B002, Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Records / Patient Records / Box 104 - Patient admit dates: March 1911-November 1911 / JCRS Patient #1970 and #33 Herman Stitch

Letter from A. Stitch to C.D. Spivak, 1912 February 21

 Item
Identifier: B002.01.0104.0159.00020
Abstract

Handwritten letter from A. Stitch to C.D. Spivak. Stitch tells Spivak that four weeks ago he sent money to have Herman Stitch’s trunk sent to New York. Stitch tells Spivak that he has not received an answer and would like Spivak to attend to the matter.

Dates: 1912 February 21
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B002, Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Records / Patient Records / Box 104 - Patient admit dates: March 1911-November 1911 / JCRS Patient #1970 and #33 Herman Stitch

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