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Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)

 Organization

Found in 6056 Collections and/or Records:

May Arno Schwatt Publications, 1928-1930

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Identifier: B002.05.0360.0013
Abstract May Arno Charsky immigrated to America in the 1880s and developed an interest in singing and acting. Under the stage name May Arno, she traveled as an actress and singer with a theater company in the early years of the twentieth century. May Charsky married Dr. Herman Schwatt in New York City (NY), who served as the Medical Superintendent of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society from 1910 to 1915 and a few years after Dr. Spivak's death in 1927. While in Denver May Arno Schwatt opened a...
Dates: 1928-1930

May Arno Schwatt Theater Company, 1914

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Identifier: B296.01.0001.00001.00036.00001
Abstract May Arno Schwatt and her traveling theater company. May Arno Schatt was the sister-in-law of Dr. Charles Spivak, a founder and executive director of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Schwatt and her theater company performed at the JCRS. She was born in Pitava, Russia to Saul and Chaya Shamus Charsky. Her mother died when she was young and she immigrated to America with a sister in the early 1880s to join her father and older sister Jennie Charsky at the Rosenheym Jewish...
Dates: 1914

Meat Kitchen at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1936

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Identifier: B063.03.0035.00006
Abstract

Two unidentified men in the meat kitchen 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. It was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside Denver.

Dates: circa 1936

Medical Building at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1929

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Identifier: B063.03.0019.00072
Abstract

The Medical Building 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: 1929

Medical Library at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1919-1940

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Identifier: B002.04.0215.0031.00001
Abstract

The medical library in the I. Rude Medical Building 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 of Denver.

Dates: between 1919-1940

Medical Report

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Identifier: B002.06.0360.0018
Scope and Contents

Contains medical report with 1921 medical statistics dated January 6, 1922.

Dates: 1952; 1919-1952

Medical Staff Banquet of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1926

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Identifier: B063.03.0035.00044
Abstract

Attendees of a banquet for Medical Staff of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Dr. Philip Hillkowitz, Dr. Charles Spivak, and Dr. Isador Bronfin sit center. 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.

Dates: circa 1926

Medical Staff of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1951

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Identifier: B063.03.0035.00050
Abstract

Four male medical staff members of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS), seated around a table. On the wall behind them there are several sets of chest x-rays. 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.

Dates: circa 1951

Memo

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Identifier: B002.01.0097.0119.00019
Abstract

Handwritten memo, unsigned and undated. The memo takes note that Mr. Meyer, owner of Meyer and Co., called about unpaid bill and to write him.

Dates: 1905 - 1920

Memo from Department of Public Safety, Pittsburgh, 1905 October 13

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Identifier: B002.01.0097.0091.00002
Abstract

Typed memo form, filled out by hand, from Pittsburgh Department of Public Health to H. Finkelpearl noting that sputum from Nathan Rabinowitz was found to harbor the tubercle bacilli. The form is signed by E.G. Matson.

Dates: 1905 October 13