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Jews

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5096 Collections and/or Records:

Tifillin for the Hand, undated

 Item
Identifier: B002.16.0204.00002
Abstract Two tefillin (phylactery) for the hand consisting of a black leather box with a brown leather strap. The top of the tefillin box has one section in Hebrew that designates that it is ''shel yad'' (for the hand). These leather boxes are those which Jewish men from the age of 13 bind with leather straps onto their left arm (unless they are left-handed, in which case they bind it onto their right arm) during the morning prayers; the leather box contains parchments on which are written the four...
Dates: undated

Tifillin for the Head, undated

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Identifier: B002.16.0204.00003
Abstract Two tefillin (phylactery) for the head consisting of a black leather box with a brown leather strap. The top of tefillin box has one section in Hebrew that designates ''shel rosh'' (for the head). These leather boxes are those which Jewish men from the age of 13 bind with leather straps on the crest of their foreheads during the morning prayers; the leather box contains parchments on which are written the four sections of the Torah in which they are mentioned: ''And you shall bind them for a...
Dates: undated

Tillie Winograd and Eleanor Winograd, circa 1926

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Identifier: B266.05.0003.00009
Abstract

Tillie Winograd and her daughter Eleanor Winograd are standing on a lawn in front of a brick house with a porch.

Dates: circa 1926

Tillie Winograd, Harold Winograd, and Eleanor Winograd, 1920

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Identifier: B266.05.0003.00002
Abstract

Tillie Winograd holding her son Harold. Her daughter Eleanor Winograd is standing beside her on Tillie's parent's (Pinsky) porch at 1213 Decatur St., in Denver.

Dates: 1920

Tobin's Pharmacy

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Identifier: B390.02.0002.00035
Abstract

Photograph shows the newer location of Tobin's Pharmacy, on the corner of West Colfax and Quitman, from the outside. Advertisements, pay phones, and a billboard can be seen. Photograph is in color.

Dates: 1936-2005

Tobin's Pharmacy Entrance

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Identifier: B390.02.0002.00036
Abstract

Photograph shows the newer location of Tobin's Pharmacy on the corner of West Colfax and Quitman. The Quitman street sign can be seen in the photograph. The photo shows the entrance to the pharmacy. Photograph is in color.

Dates: 1936-2005

Tongue Depressors and Cotton Swabs in Cylinder, between 1924-1952

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Identifier: B109.01.0002.00004
Abstract

A chrome cylinder that is divided into three sections. In the largest section are two tongue depressers in wrappers. The tongue depressers are coated with an anaesthetic to numb throat pain. In the other sections are sticks and cotton for making cotton swabs. The materials belonged to Dr. Arthur L. Esserman (born 1898) who was an intern at Children's Hospital in Denver, Colorado from 1924 to 1926 and practiced pediatric medicine in Denver from 1926 until his death in 1952.

Dates: between 1924-1952

Torah Crowns, 1945

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Identifier: B002.16.0210.00001
Abstract

KeterTorah (Crowns of Torah) with 14 bells each and ''In memory of patients at the sanitarium'' in Yiddish etched on the crown. At the top is an eagle atop a crown with eight bells. There are four bells at two additional levels hanging from zoomorphic animals. The Torah is associated with crowns to emphasize the respect due to it, as if it were royalty. The bells to announce that the Torah scroll is being taken out of or returned to the Holy Ark.

Dates: 1945

Torah Dedication at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1938 May 23

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Identifier: B063.03.0019.00047
Abstract

Torah Dedication at 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.

Dates: 1938 May 23

Torah Dedication at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1938 May 23

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Identifier: B063.03.0019.00048
Abstract

Torah Dedication at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). A crowd is walking out of a building and into the street while a rabbi leads them carrying the Torah. 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.

Dates: 1938 May 23