Tuberculosis
Found in 5615 Collections and/or Records:
Oral History Interview with Ben and Bessie Glass, 1978 October 22-1979 August 1
Ben and Bessie Glass both came to the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) as patients in 1928. Bessie Glass was treated for six years. They met in the hospital and married in 1931. Ben Glass was a printer at the JCRS bindery from 1928 through 1978. They discuss how the JCRS was like a large family of young adults from all over the country and talk about what life was like at the JCRS. They also talk about the transition from JCRS to AMC Cancer Center.
Oral History Interview with Rose Stuhlbarg, 1978 August 6
Rose Stuhlbarg details Jewish life on the West Side of Denver, Colo. She also talks about her parents who emigrated from Russia. Her father practiced folk-medicine and her mother was a midwife. She mentions the Yiddish theater in Denver. She discusses her life after her first husband died, and the Depression years in Denver. Her first husband was murdered while on the Denver Police Force in 1919.
Organizational Letterhead, Invitation and Program, between 1922-1942
Original Office of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1915
Our Goal, 1934 March 8
Speech at the 27th anniversary dinner for the National Home for Jewish Children in Denver. Fannie Lorber thanks guests for their help in keeping the Home afloat. She paraphrases E. B. Browning's poem ''The Cry of the Children''. 2nd page has date of 3/5/34.
Our Goal, 1935
Speech at the 28th anniversary dinner for the National Home for Jewish Children in Denver. Suggests forming a committee to set up an endowment fund for the support of the Home.
Out-Patient Clinic of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1908
Men, women and children wait in the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) out-patient clinic. Six nurses in the room attend to the patients. One boy is weighed by a nurse. 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 of Denver.
Pajama Party for Patients of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1928
Unidentified female patients enjoy a pajama party 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.