Patients
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Obscured Faith: The Story of Ben and Bessie Glass, 2009
Item
Identifier: B354.01.0001.00001
Abstract
Art book with hard black cover written and designed by Carissa Samaras, a student in Martin Mendelsberg's Visual Sequencing class at Rocky Mountain School of Art and Design. Based on the lives of Ben and Bessie Glass, tuberculosis patients at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society.
Dates:
2009
Oral History Interview with Ben and Bessie Glass, 1978 October 22-1979 August 1
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Identifier: B098.08.0009.00001
Abstract
Ben and Bessie Glass both came to the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) as patients in 1928. Bessie Glass was treated for six years. They met in the hospital and married in 1931. Ben Glass was a printer at the JCRS bindery from 1928 through 1978. They discuss how the JCRS was like a large family of young adults from all over the country and talk about what life was like at the JCRS. They also talk about the transition from JCRS to AMC Cancer Center.
Dates:
1978 October 22-1979 August 1