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Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research

 Organization

Biography

The Eleanor Roosevelt Institute was est. 1959 as part of the American Medical Center, Lakewood, Colo. Ground breaking ceremony held Nov. 16, 1959, but construction was never completed. In 1961, as a project of the Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Foundation, Inc., it became part of the the University of Colorado Medical Center (renamed the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 1979). The Foundation also established two other research centers (no longer in existence) at the University of Utah Medical Shcool, and the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa. The Foundation and the Denver Institute later merged. In 2003 the Institute became part of the University of Denver, under a shortened name, the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (ERI). Do not confuse with the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (presumably of Hyde Park, N.Y.) founded 1972 as a successor to the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation, which initiated and cosponsored projects to celebrate and perpetuate the values of Eleanor Roosevelt, esp. in fields of peace, youth, and social policy, and which merged with the FDR Four Freedoms Foundation to form the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in 1979.

Found in 538 Collections and/or Records:

Man Holding Drink, circa 1990

 Item
Identifier: U158.03.0048.00144
Abstract

Man sits in front of window holding drink. Parking lot visible through window.

Dates: circa 1990

Man Holds Maggie Polumbus, 1988 November 13

 Item
Identifier: U158.03.0142.00060.00002
Abstract

A man (Tony) holds Maggie Polumbus. Karen Campbell and Jane Cooper stand in the background.

Dates: 1988 November 13

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Archival Object 537
Collection 1
 
Subject
Denver (Colo.) 464
Parties 184
Medical research personnel 178
Laboratories 128
Ceremonies 109