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Hospitals

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 804 Collections and/or Records:

Group Portrait Taken at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1904-1920

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Identifier: B063.03.0011.00049
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An unidentified group of people at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (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.

Dates: between 1904-1920

Haying, between 1911-1940

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Identifier: B063.03.0036.00053.00002
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Three unidentified men stand with two harnessed horses amongst several hay piles in a field. Behind them appears to be a baler and there is a stack of baled hay to the left of them.

Dates: between 1911-1940

Heart Surgery at National Jewish Hospital, 1961

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Identifier: B063.03.0003.00011
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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

Hebrew Sisters Aid Society Bed Dedication at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, after 1926

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Identifier: B063.03.0011.00035
Abstract The Hebrew Sisters Aid Society of Washington D.C. Bed Dedication Ceremony at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Dr. Charles Spivak can be seen to the right in the back of the crowd. Bed plaque says, ''ENDOWED BY, THE HEBREW SISTERS AID SOCIETY, WASHINGTON, D. C., 1924The 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...
Dates: after 1926

Heliotherapy at the Jewish Consumptive Relief Society (JCRS), circa 1930

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Identifier: B002.04.0345.0003.00001
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Male patients receiving heliotherapy lay in beds pushed out on the verandahs of the Main Building for Men at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (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. It was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.

Dates: circa 1930

Heliotherapy at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1922-1930

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Identifier: B063.03.0035.00078
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Male patients undergoing heliotherapy on the verandahs of the Medical Building at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (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: between 1922-1930

Horse Drawn Cart at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1904-1930

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Identifier: B063.03.0035.00008
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An unknown man in a horse-drawn wagon at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (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: between 1904-1930

Hyperthermia Cancer Treatment at the AMC Cancer Research Center and Hospital, between 1950-1970

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Identifier: B063.03.0036.00004
Abstract A male patient receiving hyperthermia treatment for cancer at the American Medical Center (AMC) Cancer Research Center and Hospital. Nurse Betty Bales is adjusting a thermometer for the treatment which helps to weaken cancer cells. AMC was located on the grounds of the former Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (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...
Dates: between 1950-1970

I. Rude Medical Building, between 1911-1940

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Identifier: B063.03.0036.00054.00005
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Exterior view of the I. Rude Medical building. An unidentified man appears to be installing or removing screens from the first story window.

Dates: between 1911-1940

I. Rude Medical Building at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1919-1950

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Identifier: B063.03.0003.00049
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The I. Rude Medical Building on the campus of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (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: between 1919-1950