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Blackface entertainers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society's Minstrel Show, 1928

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Identifier: B063.03.0003.00024
Abstract

Patients perform in the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society's (JCRS) Minstrel Show in 1928. Several of the performers wear blackface, a style of theatrical makeup that was popular at the time. 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: 1928

Patients at a Costume Party at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1940-1950

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Identifier: B063.03.0035.00098
Abstract

Patients in costume at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). They may have been part of a party or play. 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 1940-1950