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Charities

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on privately supported welfare activities. Works on tax-supported welfare activities are entered under [Public welfare.] Works on the methods employed in social work, public or private, are entered under [Social service.] Works that discuss collectively the various policies, programs, services, and facilities to meet basic human needs relating to the quality of life, such as education, health, welfare, etc. are entered under [Human services.]

Found in 132 Collections and/or Records:

Events, 1995-1997

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Identifier: B360.03.0032.0007
Abstract

Invitation to the St. Louis area Board of Directors meeting in 1995. Invitation has copper background with blue floral and leaf motif decoration. Materials from the Men's Event including invitations, RSVP cards and envelopes, and a copies of early reservation letters and letterhead from 1995, 1996 and 1997.

Dates: 1995-1997
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B360, AMC Cancer Research Center Records / Historical Information, Public Relations, and Events / Box 32

Events, 2000-2002

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Identifier: B360.03.0032.0008
Abstract

Three items from the year 2000 including a "Day of Caring" pamphlet from Baltimore, an AMC Decorator Showhouse program at the Rochelle Mansion in Fallston, Maryland, and a vinyl covered cardboard notebook cover from the convention titled "Then, Now and Tomorrow." Program from the 4th annual Baltimore area "Day of Caring" in 2001 and a program for the 2002 AMC Decorator Show House at the Hays-Heighe House in Bel Air, Maryland.

Dates: 2000-2002
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B360, AMC Cancer Research Center Records / Historical Information, Public Relations, and Events / Box 32

Events, 2003-2009

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Identifier: B360.03.0032.0009
Abstract Invitaion, program and vinyl notebook cover from the 30th Anniversary of the Mitchell Cancer Center in Riverside, California. Simple invitation of black text on white cardstock, single page program with photo of Mitzi Mitchell and the notebook cover is black with silver image of hand with tasting glass "L'Chaim...To Life! AMC 2003". Thick program booklet from the 2004 St. Louis fundraiser "A Taste of Italy" with illustration of pasta, wine and grapes on cover. Pink sponsorship pamphlet for...
Dates: 2003-2009
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B360, AMC Cancer Research Center Records / Historical Information, Public Relations, and Events / Box 32

Founders of the Denver Sheltering Home for Jewish Children, circa 1907

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Identifier: B063.03.0011.00094
Abstract Promotional note card from National Jewish Medical and Research Center showing the founders of the Denver Sheltering Home for Jewish Children. From left to right are Jennie Kantrowitz, Mollie Lifshutz, Bessie Willens, Mary Augenblich, Fannie Lorber and Sadie Francis. The Denver Sheltering Home for Jewish Children was founded in 1907 to care for children whose parents were victims of tuberculosis. It later evolved into the National Home for Asthmatic Children and eventually merged with...
Dates: circa 1907
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Health Care and Philanthropy / Box 11

Frances Wisebart Jacobs, between 1880-1890

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Identifier: B063.08.0016.00002
Abstract

Frances Wisebart Jacobs in a oval photograph of her head and shoulders.

Dates: between 1880-1890
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Individuals / Box 16

Frances Wisebart Jacobs, between 1880-1890

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Identifier: B148.03.0006.00001
Abstract Frances Wisebart Jacobs in an oval portrait of her head and shoulders. Frances Wisebart Jacobs came to Colorado as a young bride in 1863, and she and her husband, Abraham Jacobs, made their first home in Central City, Colorado. After the family relocated to Denver, Colorado, she became known in the local Jewish and general community and nationally as Denver's ''Mother of Charities'' for her central role in philanthropy. She was an officer in several charitable organizations and helped to...
Dates: between 1880-1890
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B148, Frances Wisebart Jacobs Clothing and Papers / Photographs / Box 6

Frances Wisebart Jacobs Biographical Materials, 1889-2014

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Identifier: B148.02.0005.0002
Abstract

Originals and copies of newspaper articles, memorials, copy of Charity Organization Society incorporation, and memos concerning Frances Wisebart Jacobs.

Dates: 1889-2014
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B148, Frances Wisebart Jacobs Clothing and Papers / Biographical Materials / Box 5

Ida Edelson with Colorado Governor John Arthur Love, between 1950-1970

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Identifier: B063.03.0036.00016
Abstract Colorado Governor John A. Love signing a proclamation on behalf of the American Medical Center (AMC). Ida Edelson, Director of the National Council of Auxiliaries is standing next to him. AMC was located on the grounds of the former 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. The sanatorium...
Dates: between 1950-1970
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Health Care and Philanthropy / Box 36

James Roosevelt at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1952 May 1

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Identifier: B063.03.0035.00025
Abstract

James Roosevelt (third from left) with a group of men at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Standing second from the right is M.J. Baum. 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: 1952 May 1
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Health Care and Philanthropy / Box 35

James Roosevelt with Group of Women, between 1950-1970

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Identifier: B002.04.0342.0004.00003
Abstract James Roosevelt stands in front of the New York Ladies Auxiliary Building on the campus of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Also in the photograph (from left to right): Mrs. Edwin Scully, Mrs. Philip F. Lichtenstein, Mrs. Sara Zeenker, Mrs. Walter J. Sinion and an unidentified woman. 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,...
Dates: between 1950-1970
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B002, Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Records / Photographs / Box 342 / Group Portraits

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