Title
Founders of the Denver Sheltering Home for Jewish Children
Subject
Jewish children --Jews --Medical centers --Group homes for children --Charities --Women
Colorado --Denver (Colo.) --Colfax Avenue (Denver, Colo.)
Willens, Bessie,--1870-1951 --Augenblich, Mary,--1878-1914 --Lifshutz, Mollie,--1872-1967 --Kantrowitz, Jennie,--1886-1967 --Lorber, Fannie E.--(Fannie Eller),--1881-1958 --Francis, Sadie,--1873-1946
Denver Sheltering Home for Jewish Children
Description
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 National Jewish Hospital. Spearheaded by Fannie Lorber and Bessie Willens and other immigrant East European Jewish women, the home provided a traditional Jewish environment for the children who passed through its doors, as well as a strong secular education.
Handwritten on envelope: ''#1134 Founders of Denver Sheltering Home c 1907 (Fannie Lorber, Bessie Willen, etc.)''. The women are identified on the back of a National Jewish Medical and Research Center note card as, from left to right, Jennie Kantrowitz, Mollie Lifshutz, Bessie Willens, Mary Augenblich, Fannie Lorber, and Mrs. S. Disraelly. [The last woman is misidentified as S. Disraelly and should be Sadie Francis.]
Date
circa 1907
Rights
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Format
1 __item __(notecard)
Postcards
Good __ __5 x 7 inches __ __ __sepia
Language
__eng
Type
Photographs --Group portraits
Identifier
B063.03.0011.00094
codu:57290