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Shamaskin, Arnold, Dr.

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Biography

Physician

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Dr. Arnold Shamaskin of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1938

 Item
Identifier: B063.03.0019.00044
Abstract

Dr. Arnold Shamaskin who served as Medical Director and Superintendent 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. It was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside Denver.

Dates: 1938

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