Cancer treatment and research

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.

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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Two copies of "The Prevention of Cancer" from 1927, copies of historic photographs, fund raising drive letters, articles and newspapers containing historical information about JCRS and AMC.

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File contains copies of the walking tour of the AMC (formerly JCRS) campus. Tour script includes general historical information as well as information speciific to particular buildings. Maps of the campus are included. Building information includes date built, square footage and current (1997) use. Spivak family tree also in file.

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File contains six different written histories of JCRS, AMC and why Jews immigrated to Colorado. File also contains a bibliography from Dr. Jeanne Abrams thesis with used an abundance of JCRS files and a list of Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the US.

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In 1978, AMC named the Hubert H. Humphrey Cancer Research library. Though Humphrey was still alive when AMC decided to name it after him he passed away before it happened. Folder contains correspondence both before and after he died regarding the honor.

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.

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.

Abstract A male patient receiving hyperthermia treatment for cancer at the American Medical Center (AMC) Cancer Research Center and Hospital. Nurse Betty Bales is adjusting a thermometer for the treatment which helps to weaken cancer cells. AMC was located on the grounds of the former 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...

Abstract Colorado Governor John A. Love signing a proclamation on behalf of the American Medical Center (AMC). Ida Edelson, Director of the National Council of Auxiliaries is standing next to him. AMC was located on the grounds of the former 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...