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Bob Hope at a Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Convention, circa 1945, (circa 1945) Bob Hope at a Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Convention, circa 1945. Retrieved from Special Collections @ DU, https://specialcollections.du.edu/object/7c1be5f8-4324-4e3e-8dc3-247cdc2139eb

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Bob Hope at a Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Convention, circa 1945. (circa 1945) Bob Hope at a Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Convention, circa 1945. Retrieved from Special Collections @ DU <https://specialcollections.du.edu/object/7c1be5f8-4324-4e3e-8dc3-247cdc2139eb>.

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Bob Hope at a Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Convention, circa 1945. Bob Hope at a Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Convention, circa 1945. circa 1945. Retrieved from Special Collections @ DU, https://specialcollections.du.edu/object/7c1be5f8-4324-4e3e-8dc3-247cdc2139eb. (Accessed April 30, 2024.)

Data Type Value
In Collections

Beck Archives Photograph Collection

Item Type

still image

Mimetype

image/tiff

Title

Bob Hope at a Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Convention, circa 1945

Creation Date

circa 1945

Abstract

Bob Hope performing for patients at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society's (JCRS) Convention. Tony Romano, Jerry Colonna and Vera Vague (stage name of actress Barbara Jo Anderson) are also pictured and the event was held in the Mary Harris Auditorium at 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. The sanatorium was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.

Topics

Jews

Tuberculosis

Hospitals

Sanatoriums

Entertainers

Patients

Musicians

Comedians

Entertainment events

Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)

American Medical Center (Denver, Colo.)

Mary Harris Auditorium (Spivak, Colo.)

Romano, Tony, 1915-2005

Colonna, Jerry, 1904-1986

Allen, Barbara Jo, 1906-1974

Hope, Bob, 1903-2003

Places

Colorado

Denver (Colo.)

Colfax Avenue (Colo.)

West Colfax (Denver, Colo.)

Spivak (Colo.)

Genre/Form

Photographs

Extents

1 items (whole)

Resource URI

https://duarchives.coalliance.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/69654

Call Number

B063.03.0035.00037

Notes

Title supplied by archivist.

Handwritten on envelope: ''#459 JCRS Entertainment for Patients''. On back of print: ''#459 JCRS Bob Hope at JCRS Convention, 1945 in Mary Harris Auditorium. With Tony Romano, Jerry Colone (?) and Vera Vague''.

Good 8 x 10 inches black and white

Accession # 1271, Donated by AMC Cancer Research Center as part of the JCRS Records.

Copyright

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Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/10176/7c1be5f8-4324-4e3e-8dc3-247cdc2139eb

IIIF Manifest

https://specialcollections.du.edu/iiif/7c1be5f8-4324-4e3e-8dc3-247cdc2139eb/manifest