Hospital care

Abstract Seraphine Eppstein Pisko sits at a desk at National Jewish Hospital (NJH). She served as the president of the Hebrew Ladies' Benevolent Society (renamed the Jewish Relief Society in 1901) and as president of the Denver Council of Jewish Women. She also helped organize the Denver Jewish Settlement House and a free kindergarten to benefit the Eastern European Jewish immigrants on Denver's west side. Pisko became a fund-raiser for the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives, and in 1911 she...

Abstract Report of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) annual meeting on April 16, 1911, and its operations and finances for the period beginning January 1, 1910, and ending December 31, 1910; Dr. Philip Hillkowitz was the Society's President, and C.D. Spivak was the Secretary. The Secretary's report indicates that 232 patients were treated in 1910. Includes images of the facility, statistical data about the patients (including age, occupation, and duration of disease), and a list of all...

Abstract Report of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) annual meeting on March 27, 1910, and its operations and finances for the period beginning January 1, 1909, and ending December 31, 1909; Dr. Philip Hillkowitz was the Society's President, and C.D. Spivak the Secretary. The Secretary's report indicates that 298 patients were treated in 1909. Includes images of the facility, statistical data about the patients (including age, occupation, and duration of disease), and a list of all...

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Folder containing 17 miscellaneous and one contact sheet photographs from the AMC collection of staff and patients; all are in balck and white exceot one. Most of the pictures are 1950s-1960s but one appears to be 1990s.

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Interior of the Sterilization Room in the I. Rude Medical Building, on the campus of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Equipment shown includes autoclaves, a sink and floor drain. 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.

Abstract Report of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) annual meeting on October 11, 1914, and its operations and finances for the period beginning January 1, 1913, and ending December 31, 1913; Dr. Philip Hillkowitz was the Society's President, and C.D. Spivak was the Secretary. The Secretary's report indicated that 291 patients were treated in 1913. Includes statistical data about the patients (including age, occupation, and duration of disease), images of Ladies' Auxiliary officers, and...

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The Texas Pavilion for Women Building on the campus of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) opened in 1927. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish working men along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. It was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver. As of 2009, the Texas Pavilion was being used as part of the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design.

Abstract Report of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) annual meeting on January 29, 1907, and its operations and finances for the period of incorporation ending December 31, 1906; Dr. Philip Hillkowitz was the Society's President, and C.D. Spivak was the Secretary. The Secretary's report indicates that 151 patients were admitted in 1906. Includes images of the facility, statistical data about the patients (including initials, age, occupation, and duration of disease), and a list of all...

Abstract Report of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) annual meeting on June 3, 1917, and its operations and finances for the period beginning January 1, 1916, and ending December 31, 1916; Dr. Philip Hillkowitz was the Society's President, and C.D. Spivak was the Secretary. Includes statistical data about the patients from 1904-1917 (including age, gender, and state of origin), images of affiliate officers, as well as telegrams and letters sent to the annual meeting. Published as volume...

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Report of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) annual operations and finances for the period beginning January 1, 1925, and ending December 31, 1925; Dr. Philip Hillkowitz was the Society's President, and C.D. Spivak the Secretary. Includes images of new buildings, a new 135-foot water tank, and statistical data about patients for 1925. Published as volume 20, number 3 (July, August, September 1926) of The Sanatorium.