Hospitals -- Colorado -- Denver

Abstract Five photographs are printed on a page with captions. Top row left is a picture of the docked ship Kedmah with the caption: ''The end of their journey - Israel.'' Top row middle is an exterior view of General Rose Memorial Hospital with cars and patients in front and the caption: ''Medical Care at its finest.'' Top row right is a picture of a dinner in a large room with three large banner and the caption: ''Fight for Democracy thru Anti-Defamation work.'' Bottom row left is a photograph...

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Four musicians dressed in western attire and an unidentified man wearing a suit and a B'nai B'rith badge stand around four patients at Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Aurora, Colorado.

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Martin M. Gluchow, president of B'nai B'rith District Grand Lodge #2, stands with a young boy, a patient at National Jewish Hospital, who is standing in a crib wearing Gluchow's glasses.

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Dr. Isidor Bronfin stands outside holding a cigarette at the JCRS campus wearing a white coat and pants.

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Formal studio portrait of Satuloff, an early patient at the Jewish Consumptive Relief Society in Denver, Colorado.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection includes annual reports, correspondence, limited patient records, meeting minutes, financial statements, reports, scrapbooks, photographs, sound discs, and objects from 1899 to 2009. The items reveal patient demographics and characteristics as well as detailed information regarding the early treatment of tuberculosis.

Abstract Invitation to building dedications and a banquet and dance by the trustees of the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives. The dedications were of the Louis D. Beaumont Home for Nurses and The Hofheimer Children's Building at the hospital, both built largely through the efforts of Seraphine Pisko. A banquet and dance was held at the Albany Hotel. Seraphine Eppstein Pisko (1861-1942) began working at National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives as a field secretary, fund raiser, in 1900. In...

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Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) campus as viewed from the air. 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 was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver. In 1954 the institution changed its mission to cancer research and became the American Medical Center (AMC Cancer Research Center).

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The main building for men with the Tower of Hope 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 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.

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Map of the United States drawn on cardboard indicates the locality by state and country and the numbers of patients treated since the opening of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society in Denver, Colorado from September 8, 1904 to October 1, 1937. The sanatorium treated 7502 patients by 1937. Map includes patients from Canada and Panama.