Seraphine Pisko

Seraphine Pisko

Jews --Hospitals --Tuberculosis --Jewish women

Colorado --Denver (Colo.) --Colfax Avenue (Denver, Colo.)

Hospital administrators

Pisko, Seraphine Eppstein,--1861-1942

National Jewish Hospital (U.S.)

Seraphine Eppstein Pisko sits at a desk at National Jewish Hospital (NJH). She served as the president of the Hebrew Ladies' Benevolent Society (renamed the Jewish Relief Society in 1901) and as president of the Denver Council of Jewish Women. She also helped organize the Denver Jewish Settlement House and a free kindergarten to benefit the Eastern European Jewish immigrants on Denver's west side. Pisko became a fund-raiser for the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives, and in 1911 she was appointed secretary of NJH and later was named executive director as well as vice president. She was in administrative control of the day-to-day activities until her retirement in 1938.

Handwritten on envelope: ''#84 Mrs. Seraphine Pisko at NJH.'' On back of photograph: ''#84 Seraphine Pisko.''

circa 1940

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Photographic prints

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Photographs --Interior views

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