Nurses
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Source: LCSH
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Portrait of Anna Naswitz of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1939 June 6
Item
Identifier: B063.03.0019.00033
Abstract
Anna Naswitz, head nurse 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. It was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside Denver. Anna Naswitz was often considered the ''dynamic angel of mercy.''
Dates:
1939 June 6