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 workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. The sanatorium 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
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 8 x 10 inches black and white
Provenance
Accession # 1271, Donated by AMC Cancer Research Center as part of the JCRS Records.
General
Title supplied by archivist.
Inscription and Marks
Handwritten on envelope: ''#459 JCRS Entertainment for Patients''. On back of print: ''#459 JCRS Bob Hope at JCRS Convention, 1945 in Mary Harris Auditorium. With Tony Romano, Jerry Colone (?) and Vera Vague''.
- Allen, Barbara Jo, 1906-1974
- American Medical Center (Denver, Colo.)
- 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
- Romano, Tony, 1915-2005
- Sanatoriums
- Spivak (Colo.)
- Tuberculosis
- West Colfax (Denver, Colo.)
Creator
- From the Collection: University of Denver. Center for Judaic Studies. Ira M. Beck Memorial Collection of Rocky Mountain Jewish History (Organization)
- From the Collection: Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository