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Janet Haas collection on Jewish tuberculosis organizations and Jewish cemetaries, 1934-1972.
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Janet Haas collection on Jewish tuberculosis organizations and Jewish cemetaries, 1934-1972Creator/Contributor:
Haas, Janet, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, 2000.002.Creator/Contributor:
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and LifeAbstract:
The collection contains promotional materials about the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society's sanatorium in Spivak, Colordado:
Thirty Years of Saving Lives: The Sanatorium of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 'Denver Sanatorium' 1904-1934; a
pamphlet, from 1947, entitled Keep them Living! and a series of published prints about the sanatorium entitled The J.C.R.S
in Pictures. The collection also includes materials relating to Jewish cemeteries, particularly correspondence between Bob
Levinson, Gary Haas (December 29, 1972) and Rabbi Louis Neimand (December 29, 1972) about the gravestones of Mildred Haida
and her husband, Jehu Haida, and the Bidwell Bar cemetery, whose graves and tombstones were removed prior to the cemetery's
land being flooded by the Oroville Dam. The collection also includes a pamphlet from the Judah L. Magnes Museum's Commission
for the Preservation of Pioneer Jewish Cemeteries and Landmarks that contains the names of its officers and trustees.
Date:
1934 (issued)Subject:
Haas, Janet -- ArchivesJewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)
Jewish cemeteries -- California
Note:
Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number 2000.002.
Janet Haas collection on Jewish tuberculosis organizations and Jewish cemetaries, BANC MSS 2010/594, The Magnes Collection
of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Materials in English.
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