Art Class at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society

Art Class at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society

Jews --Tuberculosis --Hospitals --Sanatoriums --Rehabilitation --Art --Patients

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

Lazarus, Max,--1892-1961

Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)

An art class that is part of the rehabilitation program of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) meets for a session. Male patients sit on folding chairs in a half circle around a male model wearing a robe, pajamas, slippers and hat. Max Lazarus, a German-Jewish artist, is pictured second from the left. Twenty-three charcoal drawings hang on the walls. 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.

Handwritten on envelope: ''#462 JCRS Patient Activities''. On back of photograph: ''#462 JCRS Art Class - 1942''.

circa 1942

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Halftone photomechanical prints

Good __ __4 x 7 inches __ __ __black and white __ __5 x 7 inches

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Photographs --Interior views

B063.03.0011.00050

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