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Children of the National Asthma Center Playing Basketball, between 1970-1980

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Identifier: B089.12.0020.0009.00002
Abstract Two unidentified children from the National Asthma Center playing basketball. The National Asthma Center's history began in 1907 as the Denver Sheltering Home for Jewish Children, which was a refuge for lower-income children whose parents were being treated for tuberculosis, or had passed away from tuberculosis. In 1928 the institution changed names to the National Home for Jewish Children in Denver. In 1953, the name changed to the Jewish National Home for Asthmatic Children at Denver and...
Dates: between 1970-1980

Youth Basketball Team of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1940-1955

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Identifier: B002.04.0217.0017.00001
Abstract

Team portrait of a youth basketball team 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 of Denver.

Dates: between 1940-1955