Charities
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on privately supported welfare activities. Works on tax-supported welfare activities are entered under [Public welfare.] Works on the methods employed in social work, public or private, are entered under [Social service.] Works that discuss collectively the various policies, programs, services, and facilities to meet basic human needs relating to the quality of life, such as education, health, welfare, etc. are entered under [Human services.]
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Bea Asherman Papers
Collection
Identifier: B343
Abstract
Bea Asherman was a longtime volunteer for National Jewish Health, beginning when she joined the New York Auxiliary Chapter of the National Home for Jewish Children, later the National Asthma Center. She became president of the New York auxillary, and then a national auxiliary board member and trustee. She continued to volunteer after the National Asthma Center merged with National Jewish Hospital. She helped establish 17 auxiliary chapters in New York. Collection contains photographs,...
Dates:
1924-1998
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
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Bea Asherman Papers
David Silver Certificates and Plaques
Collection
Identifier: B334
Abstract
David Silver was a Holocaust survivor who immigrated to Denver, CO. In Denver he was a very active mason and a Shriner with El Jebel. Collection contains certificates, and plaques related to David Silver from 1957 through 1999.
Dates:
1957-1999
Denver Women's Social Union Club Records
Collection
Identifier: M022
Abstract
The Denver Women's Social Union Club was founded in 1898 as a mutual-aid society by members of the Social Science Department of the Women's Club of Denver and was called the Social Union. The club was formed to benefit poor and working-class women and their families living in the Delgany neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Mary C. C. Bradford, Colorado educator and political activist, was considered ''the mother of the Social Union'' because of her involvement in the early years of the...
Dates:
1908-1973
Tillye Levy Papers
Collection
Identifier: B260
Abstract
Tillye Shulman Levy was one of the Denver Jewish community’s most dedicated and effective volunteers. Born in Central City in 1895, she first became involved in philanthropic charity work as a young woman, after meeting Fannie Lorber, the longtime president of the Denver Sheltering Home for Jewish Children. As a teenager, Tillye worked at the Denver Trunk Factory in downtown Denver, located next door to the Lorber Shoe Company. Mrs. Lorber interested Tillye in the children and soon she was...
Dates:
1937-1980
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
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Tillye Levy Papers
Virginia E. Trevorrow Papers
Collection
Identifier: M270
Abstract
Virginia E. Trevorrow (1909-1997) graduated from DU in 1931 with a degree in Biochemistry. She went on to get a PhD and spent her career as a research biochemist at the Child Research Council. The papers in the Archive include biographical information, a selection of papers and family photographs.
Dates:
1910-2001