Founders of the Denver Sheltering Home for Jewish Children, circa 1907

Item

Identifier: B063.03.0011.00094

Staff Only

Abstract

Promotional note card from National Jewish Medical and Research Center showing the founders of the Denver Sheltering Home for Jewish Children. From left to right are Jennie Kantrowitz, Mollie Lifshutz, Bessie Willens, Mary Augenblich, Fannie Lorber and Sadie Francis. The Denver Sheltering Home for Jewish Children was founded in 1907 to care for children whose parents were victims of tuberculosis. It later evolved into the National Home for Asthmatic Children and eventually merged with National Jewish Hospital. Spearheaded by Fannie Lorber and Bessie Willens and other immigrant East European Jewish women, the home provided a traditional Jewish environment for the children who passed through its doors, as well as a strong secular education.

Dates

circa 1907

Digital Repository

Founders of the Denver Sheltering Home for Jewish Children

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Extent

1 Items (notecard)

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.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Good 5 x 7 inches sepia

Provenance

Created by National Jewish Hospital as part of their Centennial Celebration.

General

Title supplied by archivist. ||Appears in ''Images of America: Jewish Denver 1859-1940,'' by Dr. Jeanne Abrams, page 87.

Inscription and Marks

Handwritten on envelope: ''#1134 Founders of Denver Sheltering Home c 1907 (Fannie Lorber, Bessie Willen, etc.)''. The women are identified on the back of a National Jewish Medical and Research Center note card as, from left to right, Jennie Kantrowitz, Mollie Lifshutz, Bessie Willens, Mary Augenblich, Fannie Lorber, and Mrs. S. Disraelly. [The last woman is misidentified as S. Disraelly and should be Sadie Francis.]