Bob Hope at a Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Convention, circa 1945
Abstract
Bob Hope performing for patients at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society's (JCRS) Convention. Tony Romano, Jerry Colonna and Vera Vague (stage name of actress Barbara Jo Anderson) are also pictured and the event was held in the Mary Harris Auditorium at the JCRS. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish working men 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
- circa 1945
Digital Repository
Bob Hope at a Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Convention
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Extent
1 Items (photograph)
Scope and Contents
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.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
8 x 10 inches black and white
Provenance
Donated by A.M.C. Cancer Research Center as part of the J.C.R.S. Records.
General
Title supplied by archivist.
- Allen, Barbara Jo, 1906-1974
- Colfax Avenue (Colo.)
- Colonna, Jerry, 1904-1986
- Colorado
- Comedians
- Denver (Colo.)
- Entertainers
- Entertainment events
- Hope, Bob, 1903-2003
- Hospitals
- Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)
- Jews
- Mary Harris Auditorium (Spivak, Colo.)
- Musicians
- Patients
- Photographs
- Revues
- Romano, Tony, 1915-2005
- Sanatoriums
- Spivak (Colo.)
- Tuberculosis
Creator
- From the Collection: Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.) (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository