Cohen, Max

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Max 'Irish' Cohen excelled at baseball and football in the 1920s, mostly playing in local semi-pro and amateur leagues in and around Denver, becoming the first Jewish baseball captain west of the Mississippi while at the University of Denver.

Abstract Teachers pose with their students the class of 1921 on the steps of Cheltenham School located at West Colfax Avenue and Irving Street in Denver, Colorado. The boys wear suits with short pants and the girls wear dresses. Frieda Radetsky, Julia Weiner, Rose Holland, Sam Bronstein, Reuben Hoffman, Sam Yoclin, Isreal [sic] Kahnanowitz, Rose Lutz, Charlotte R. Christian, Jennie Schenkman, Rose Goldberg, Max Cohen, Ida Roberts, Abe Lavitt, Bennie Albert, Margaret McGavock, Sam Menin, Benjamin...

Abstract Handwritten letter from the president of Hartford Hospital to C.D. Spivak. The hospital informs Spivak that they are sending a consumptive patient to JCRS by the name of Max Cohen. They tell Spivak that Max had been in a consumptive hospital for four months and the doctor decided that he must go to Denver. The hospital informs Spivak that they have followed his directions when sending a patient to Denver such as, providing a certificate from a doctor and means to pay for boarding for at...

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Typed letter from C.D. Spivak to N.P. Levin asking him to admit Max Cohen to the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society as an emergency patient. Spivak tells Levin that Dr. E. Friedman recommended his case to the sanatorium. He signs the letter "Secretary" at the bottom.

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Typed letter from George Tonkonogy, Attorney and Counsellor at Law to Dr. C. S. Spivak (Dr. C. D. Spivak), on May 16th 1906. The letter asks JCRS to take in Louis Moscovitz, due to insufficient funds at the Brownsville Relief Society. The letter is signed George Tonkonogy, David Toback, Nathan Kovensky, Louis Ratner, Julius Kromot, Max Cohen, Nathaniel J. Coyne, D. D. S.

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Typed letter from H. Masliansky to C.D. Spivak. Masliansky informs Spivak that he will be writing about Max Cohen under a separate letter.

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Typed letter from H. Masliansky to C.D. Spivak. Masliansky informs Spivak that Max Cohen and Oscar Friedman left for Denver. Masliansky tells Spivak that both of the men are only prepared to stay in Denver for six weeks while waiting to be admitted to JCRS. He also says that the men struggled to secure the money for their stay and he asks Spivak to consider them for admission.

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Typed letter from JCRS to Mr. Max Cohen, on June 6, 1906. The letter informs Mr. Cohen that Mr. Louis Moscovitz has been admitted to the Sanatorium. The letter is not signed, but "President" is typed at the bottom.

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Max Cohen and Henry Schoen sit in front of Balanced Rock in the Garden of the Gods.