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Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)

 Organization

Found in 5978 Collections and/or Records:

On the Gate: One Prisoner's Stay at the JCRS, Summer 2005

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Identifier: B354.01.0005.00004
Abstract

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.

Dates: Summer 2005

Operating Room, after 1955

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Identifier: B002.04.0215.0171.00009
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: after 1955

Operating Room at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1941

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Identifier: B063.03.0003.00031
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1941

Operating Room at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, undated

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Identifier: B002.04.0215.0164.00001
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: undated

Oral History Interview with Ben and Bessie Glass, 1978 October 22-1979 August 1

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Identifier: B098.08.0009.00001
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1978 October 22-1979 August 1

Oral History Interview with Ben Blumberg, 1977 November 18

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Identifier: B098.05.0008.00003
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1977 November 18

Oral History Interview with Bessie Katchen, 1978 July 15

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Identifier: B098.01.0002.00037
Abstract Bessie (Mrs. William) Katchen recounts her life in a Russian village and her emigration to America, alone at the age of 14. She settled in Boston, Mass. and worked in poor conditions in a shoe factory. She talks about coming to Denver, Colo. and her life in early Denver. She also discusses the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society where her uncle was a patient. She married William Katchen and after World War I became a citizen so she could bring her mother to the United States. She also talks...
Dates: 1978 July 15

Oral History Interview with Deena Spivak Strauss, 1982 March 13

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Identifier: B098.01.0004.00090
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1982 March 13

Oral History Interview with Dorothy Atler, 1992 September 18

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Identifier: B098.01.0006.00150
Abstract "Dorothy Atler (née Robinson) recounts experiences of her childhood, growing up on the family-owned Robinson farm, and her memories of visits to downtown Denver, Colo. and of later living in Denver. She describes meeting her future husband, Noah Atler, and talks about his involvement in civic and religious organizations. This involvement included a boys' summer camp that he personally sponsored for underprivileged children, as well as the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). She...
Dates: 1992 September 18

Oral History Interview with Frank Quicksilver, 1979 July 25

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Identifier: B098.04.0008.00022
Abstract Topics covered: Father died when he was six; served in WWI for the Russian Army on the front line; 1920 Russian civil war starts, white army killed Jews; leaves for US paying many bribes to get out; comes through Elis Island, goes to Baltimore where uncle was and later to DC; gets TB and comes to Denver for treatment with wife and 18 mo. old child, in Denver diagnosed as asthmatic; worked in produce sales, talks about JCRS jobs; lost only son in World War II; feelings on Jewish community;...
Dates: 1979 July 25