Heart Surgery at National Jewish Hospital, 1961

Item

Identifier: B063.03.0003.00011

Staff Only

Abstract

A heart surgery in progress at National Jewish Hospital. The cardiac surgery program was started in 1948 and discontinued in June of 1968. This program was one of the first in the West to perform the heart valve operations, mitral commissurotomy in the late 1940s. Even though the program had produced pioneering work in open-heart and lung surgery, it became too expensive to maintain and was no longer considered unique.

Dates

1961

Digital Repository

Heart Surgery at National Jewish Hospital

Inscription and Marks

Handwritten on envelope: ''#174 National Jewish Hospital''. On back of photograph: ''#174 1961 Heart Surgery in progress in NJH National Jewish Hospital, Denver est. 1899''.

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Extent

2 Photographic Prints (photograph) : good, black and white ; 8 x 10 inches

Additional Description

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection contains materials intentionally assembled by the Ira M. and Peryle Hayutin Beck Memorial Archives of Jews in the Rocky Mountain region. The bulk of the photographs are from or related to various towns in Colorado, but the collection also contains photographs from other states in the western United States and other countries. There are some 19th century photograph types represented in the collection, including albumen prints, daguerrotypes, tintypes, post cards, colorized prints, cabinet cards, and cartes-de-visite.

Inscription and Marks

Handwritten on envelope: ''#174 National Jewish Hospital''. On back of photograph: ''#174 1961 Heart Surgery in progress in NJH National Jewish Hospital, Denver est. 1899''.