Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Records
Abstract
The Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society was known as the JCRS and was founded in Denver, Colorado in 1904 as a non-sectarian sanatorium to treat tuberculosis (TB) patients, free of charge, in all stages of the disease. The society was one of the leading tuberculosis sanatoria in the country at the turn of the century founded by a group of immigrant Eastern European Jewish men, many of whom were themselves victims of TB. Headed by Dr. Charles Spivak as Secretary (1904-1927) and by Dr. Philip Hillkowitz as President (1904-1948), the sanatorium treated primarily Jewish patients (notably, Solomon Bloomgarden who served as publicity chairman). In 1954 institution changed its mission to cancer research and became American Medical Center; in 1970s renamed AMC Cancer Research Center and Hospital. Today known as AMC Cancer Research Center.
Records highlight immigration history, medical history (particularly tuberculosis treatment), social and women's history, as well as the growth and development of Colorado's Jewish community. The collection includes correspondence, patient records, legal & financial records, scrapbooks, visitor registers, periodicals, minutes, committee reports, newspaper clippings, sound discs, and photographs.
Dates
- 1897-1989
- Majority of material found within 1904-1973
Creator
- Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.) (Organization)
Digital Repository
Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Records
Language of Materials
Biographical / Historical
Extent
1 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents
Arrangement
- Patient Records, 1904-1989
- Golden Book of Life, 1903-1964
- Bequests, 1908-1958
- Photographs, 1900-1979
- Publications, 1904-1976
- General Papers, 1905-1973
- Auxiliary Papers, 1909-1968
- Scrapbooks and Newspaper Clippings, 1904-1970
- Dr. Spivak, 1897-1928
- Administrative Records, 1904-1967
- Minutes, 1906-1960
- Bound Material, 1944-1963
- Ephemera, 1904-1976
- Ex-Patients Tubercular Home Records, 1917-1965
- Financial Records, 1905-1967
- Religious and Material Culture Objects, 1904-1960
- Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research, 1955-1960
Accruals
General
- Europe, Eastern -- Emigration and immigration
- Hillkowitz, Philip, 1873-1948
- Hospitals -- Colorado -- Denver
- Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)
- Jewish hospitals -- Colorado -- Denver
- Jews -- Colorado -- Denver
- Sanatoriums -- Colorado -- Denver
- Spivak, C. D. (Charles D.), 1861-1927
- Tuberculosis -- Patients
- United States -- Emigration and immigration
Creator
- Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.) (Organization)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository