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Tuberculosis

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5615 Collections and/or Records:

Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Convention of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1923

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Identifier: B002.05.01.0199.0019.00001
Abstract

Part 2 of the report of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) annual meeting held June 9 and 12, 1923; Dr. Philip Hillkowitz was the Society's President, and C.D. Spivak was the Secretary. Includes statistical data about the patients in 1922 and a report of the Society's expenditures. Published as volume 17, number 3 (July, August, September 1923) of The Sanatorium.

Dates: 1923

Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Convention of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1921

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Identifier: B002.05.01.0199.0016.00001
Abstract Report of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) annual meeting on June 4-6, 1921, and its operations and finances for the period beginning January 1, 1920, and ending December 31, 1920; Dr. Philip Hillkowitz was the Society's President, and C.D. Spivak was the Secretary. Includes text of officers' addresses and reports, statistical data about the patients in 1920, and a questionnaire for all Jewish federated charities in the United States. Published as volume 15, number 2 (April,...
Dates: 1921

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1920

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Identifier: B002.05.01.0199.0015.00001
Abstract Report of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) annual meeting on August 22, 1920, and its operations and finances for the period beginning January 1, 1919, and ending December 31, 1919; Dr. Philip Hillkowitz was the Society's President, and C.D. Spivak was the Secretary. Includes text of officers' addresses and reports, statistical data about the patients in 1919, and a list of all donors. Published as volume 14, number 3 (July, August, September 1920) and volume 14, number 4...
Dates: 1920

Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Convention of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1924

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Identifier: B002.05.01.0199.0021.00001
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Part 2 of the report of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) annual meeting held on May 30-June 2, 1924; Dr. Philip Hillkowitz was the Society's President, and C.D. Spivak was the Secretary. Includes 20-year statistical data about patients from 1904-1923, and a report of the Society's expenditures. Published as Volume 18, Number 4 (October, November, December 1924) of The Sanatorium.

Dates: 1924

Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Convention of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society of Denver, Colorado, 1924

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Identifier: B002.05.01.0199.0020.00001
Abstract Part 1 of the report of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) annual meeting held on May 30-June 2, 1924; Dr. Philip Hillkowitz was the Society's President, and C.D. Spivak was the Secretary. Includes text of officers' addresses and reports, portraits of convention committee chairs, and medical statistics about the patients in 1923. Includes text of convention sessions, a photograph of a meeting with U.S. Senator Royal S. Copeland that includes Morris Garfinkle, Harry Sherby, Abram...
Dates: 1924

Publications, 1909-1925

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Identifier: B002.05.0360.0012
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous copies of "Tales of the Tents" from 1914 to 1915, and a copy of "The Denver Jewish News" from August 13, 1915.

Dates: 1909-1925

Publicity Releases, 1923-1924

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Identifier: B005.01.0002.0006
Abstract

publicity releases related to the Pisko file

Dates: 1923-1924

Purim Costume Party at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1925 March 10

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Identifier: B002.04.0215.0054.00001
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A costume party at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) held for patients. Parties were often given for patients of the JCRS as a form of recreation while they recovered from tuberculosis. 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: 1925 March 10

Rabbi Elias Hillkowitz, circa 1910

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Identifier: B063.06.0014.00002
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Rabbi Elias Hillkowitz was considered the dean of Denver's early west-side Orthodox Jewish rabbis. He was an early supporter of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS), where his son, Dr. Philip Hillkowitz, served as president from 1904 to 1948. Rabbi Hillkowitz suggested the JCRS motto from the Talmud: ''He who saves one life saves the world.''

Dates: circa 1910

Radio Broadcasting at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1952

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Identifier: B063.03.0011.00052
Abstract

An unidentified man and woman, who appear to be hosting a radio show on the grounds 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.

Dates: circa 1952