Pajama Party for Patients of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society

Pajama Party for Patients of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society

Jews --Tuberculosis --Hospitals --Sanatoriums --Women --Patients

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

Marks, Mickey--(Bertha)

Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.) --American Medical Center (Denver, Colo.)

Unidentified female patients enjoy a pajama party at 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. It was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside Denver.

Handwritten on front of photograph: ''A pajama party, on sun porch, My wheel chair, Old Bldg.'' Handwritten on envelope: ''#429 JCRS 1929s.'' On back of photograph: ''JCRS, I made the paper hats, for this occasion, c 1928, from album of Bertha 'Mickey' Marks, donor Mrs. Ruth Cluff, #429.''

Marks, Mickey--(Bertha),--1927-1997

1928

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Photographic prints

Good __ __3 x 4 inches __ __ __black and white

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Photographs --Group portraits

B063.03.0019.00061

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