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West Colfax (Denver, Colo.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 789 Collections and/or Records:

Lena Bloch Memorial Home at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1941

 Item
Identifier: B063.03.0003.00068
Abstract

Exterior of the Lena Bloch Memorial Home for Nurses, on the campus 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. The sanatorium was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.

Dates: circa 1941

Lena Bloch Memorial Home at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1930

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Identifier: B063.03.0003.00069
Abstract Exterior of the Lena Bloch Memorial Home for Nurses, on the campus of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). A sign added to this particular photograph has the name of the Home misspelled as ''Lena Block.''' 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...
Dates: circa 1930

Lena Bloch Memorial Home for Nurses at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1930

 Item
Identifier: B063.03.0003.00053
Abstract

Exterior of the Lena Bloch Memorial Home for Nurses on the campus 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. The sanatorium was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.

Dates: circa 1930

Lena Bloch Memorial Home for Nurses at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1930

 Item
Identifier: B063.03.0003.00055
Abstract

Exterior of the Lena Bloch Memorial Home for Nurses on the campus 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. The sanatorium was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.

Dates: circa 1930

Lena Bloch Memorial Home for Nurses at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief SocietyAerial View of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society's Campus, circa 1941

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Identifier: B063.03.0003.00072
Abstract

Exterior of the Lena Bloch Memorial Home for Nurses, on the campus 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. The sanatorium was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.

Dates: circa 1941

Levitt Children, circa 1923

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Identifier: B315.01.00005
Abstract

The Levitt children are standing in front of their brick home at 15th street and Dale Court in Denver, Colorado. In the back row from left to right are Morris (Moshe) Levitt, Tillie Levitt (Tein), and Mary Levitt (Rubanowitz). In the front row from left to right are Anne Levitt (Marcus), Edward Levitt, and Dorothy Levitt (Cohen). The children's' parents were Isadore and Yetta Prezant Levitt who settled in the Eastern European Jewish neighborhood around West Colfax Avenue.

Dates: circa 1923

Levitt Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B315
Abstract Isadore and Yetta Prezant Levitt and their descendants have lived in Denver, Colorado for over a century. Isadore (Shea) and Yetta Prezant Levitt came to Denver, Colorado from Russia in the early 1900s and settled in the Eastern European Jewish enclave around West Colfax Avenue. The Levitt Family Papers contain a family tree, a reunion directory and scanned photographs. The papers reflect the Americanization of an Eastern European Jewish extended family during the twentieth...
Dates: 1876-1995; Majority of material found in 1940-1952

Levitt Sisters with Daughters, circa 1951

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Identifier: B315.01.00009
Abstract

Four Levitt sisters and two of their daughters are standing in front of their parent's house at 1534 Grove Street in Denver, Colorado. From left to right are Anne Levitt Marcus, Mary Levitt (Rubanowitz), Tillie Levitt (Tein) with her daughter Linda Tein, and Dorothy Levitt (Cohen) with her daughter Sharon Cohen. Their parents, Isadore and Yetta Prezant Levitt, settled in the Eastern European Jewish neighborhood around West Colfax Avenue in Denver.

Dates: circa 1951

Library of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1940-1960

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Identifier: B063.03.0011.00098.00005
Abstract

Interior of the library at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). This postcard is from a set of photographs of the 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: between 1940-1960

Lillian Fogel Rubin Photograph Albums

 Collection
Identifier: B194
Abstract Lillian Fogel Rubin was born in Denver, Colorado on August 17, 1922 to parents who came from Maczyv, Poland through Ellis Island in 1904. Her parents and aunts and uncles were Orthodox Jews. Lillian Fogel's mother belonged to the Sisterhood at the Hebrew Educational Alliance and the Auxiliaries of JCRS and Beth Israel Hospital. Lillian Fogel lived on the West Side of Denver until she married Herman Rubin in 1947 and they moved to Ogden, Utah. Lillian Rubin died in Ogden, Utah on March 24,...
Dates: Other: 1930-1948