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Women patients

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 381 Collections and/or Records:

Patient and Helping Hand, 1954-1969

 Item
Identifier: B002.04.0215.0075.00001
Abstract

A female patient laying on a bed while her right hand and wrist and are held by an unidentified woman. This photograph was taken at the American Medical Center, formerly known as 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 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.

Dates: 1954-1969