Surgeons

Abstract Dr. Haskell M. Cohen (1875-1964) was considered a pioneer in Colorado medicine and surgery. After receiving his primary degree from an adjunct college of Columbia Universityin 1899, Cohen went to Vienna and Berlin for advanced medical study, and stayed there from 1904-1911 when he returned to Denver. Cohen was Chief of Surgery at Mercy Hosiptal for many years, and was a founder of Beth Israel Hospital. He also sat on the Medical Advisory Board and Board of Trustees at national Jewish...

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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.

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An operating room in an unidentified hospital. Five unidentified men and women are standing around a patient who is on the operating table.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains a photo album, photographs, bulletin pages, drawings, lithographs, and contact sheets of the campus and buildings, patients and family, staff and volunteers, auxiliaries and conventions, and activities connected with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the AMC Cancer Research Center.

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An operating room at Denver General Hospital in Denver, Colorado. Five unidentified medical professionals are standing around a patient who is on the table.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains a photo album, photographs, bulletin pages, drawings, lithographs, and contact sheets of the campus and buildings, patients and family, staff and volunteers, auxiliaries and conventions, and activities connected with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the AMC Cancer Research Center.

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Interior of an operating room at the Texas Pavilion, 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.

Abstract Black three-ring binder full of miscellaneous photographs from Rose Memorial Hospital. Photographs included several headshots from entertainers, general construction and building shots, and a picture of a surgeons preparing for a knee replacement surgery. Inventory of photographs: 1. Ben Vereen, 2. Ben Vereen, 3. Bill Cosby and ?, 4. Sammy Davis Jr., 5. Steve Lawrence and Edyie Gorme, 6. Diahann Carrol, 7. Al Jolson, 8. Al Jolson, 9. Jimmy Durante and Friends, 10.Jimmy Durante and Friends,...