Lindsey, Ben B. (Ben Barr), 1869-1943
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Ben Lindsey was a Denver judge and created the first juvenile court in Denver and was an early advocate of a separate juvenile court system in the United States. He worked closely with the Jewish Home for Children (NAC) and the National Council of Jewish Women.
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Dignitaries of National Jewish Hospital, between 1920-1930
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Identifier: B063.03.0019.00058
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Dignitaries of National Jewish Hospital in Denver, Colorado. National Jewish Hospital is located on the corner of Colfax Avenue and Colorado Boulevard. Pictured are Mayor Stapleton, Governor Sweet, Seraphine Pisko, Rabbi William Friedman and Judge Ben Lindsey.
Dates:
between 1920-1930
Staff Members of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1926
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Identifier: B063.03.0011.00009
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Left to right: Dr. Isidor Bronfin, JCRS medical superintendent and tuberculosis specialist; Denver Judge Ben Lindsey of the juvenile court; Dr. Leo Tepley, JCRS physician; Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial lawyer; and Dr. Charles Spivak, physician and founder of the 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...
Dates:
circa 1926
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