Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)
Found in 5978 Collections and/or Records:
On the Gate: One Prisoner's Stay at the JCRS, Summer 2005
Art book with burnt orange softcover and cream colored pages; written, designed and created by Tim Schafer, a student in Martin Mendelsberg's Visual Sequencing class at Rocky Mountain School of Art and Design. Inspired by the life of Myron Friede, a tuberculosis patient at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, #9568.
Operating Room, after 1955
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.
Operating Room at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1941
Interior of an operating room at the Texas Pavilion, 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.
Operating Room at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, undated
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.
Oral History Interview with Ben and Bessie Glass, 1978 October 22-1979 August 1
Ben and Bessie Glass both came to the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) as patients in 1928. Bessie Glass was treated for six years. They met in the hospital and married in 1931. Ben Glass was a printer at the JCRS bindery from 1928 through 1978. They discuss how the JCRS was like a large family of young adults from all over the country and talk about what life was like at the JCRS. They also talk about the transition from JCRS to AMC Cancer Center.
Oral History Interview with Ben Blumberg, 1977 November 18
Topics covered: Family history, life in Denver, working for the Rocky Mountain News and starting the West End Press; B'nai B'rith and several other organizations: JCC, JCRS, Rose Medical Center, Allied Jewish Federation. Index in file B098.18.0022.0008.
Oral History Interview with Bessie Katchen, 1978 July 15
Oral History Interview with Deena Spivak Strauss, 1982 March 13
Deena Spivak Strauss discusses her early life and her father Dr. Charles Spivak, a founder, medical advisor, and executive secretary of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). She also talks about the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and her travels as a field worker for JCRS.