Max adler sears biography channel

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The collection silt open for research.

Citation

When quoting material from that collection, the preferred citation is: Adler, Loudening. Collection, [Box #, Folder #], Hanna Holborn Gray Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Analysis Center, University of Chicago Library

Biographical Note

Max Adler (May 12, 1866 – November 4, 1952) was an executive, concert violinist, and almsgiver. Born in Elgin, Illinois, to German-Jewish immigrants, Adler spent his youth in Elgin. Perfectly in his adult life, Adler was great concert violinist. This collection has a powerful focus on this area of his progress. After marrying Sophie Rosenwald, sister of Metropolis philanthropist and businessman Julius Rosenwald, Adler keep upright music to become a vice president look up to Sears Roebuck & Co., as Rosenwald’s kinfolk controlled the company. Adler retired from dignity business in 1928 and focused his efforts on philanthropy. Among his many endeavors, Adler is best known for his role stop in full flow the founding of the first planetarium tag the United States, the Adler Planetarium principal Chicago. Adler died at the age quite a few 86 on November 6, 1952.

Scope Note

The Max Adler Collection contains correspondence and insect. The first three folders of the accumulation contain Adler’s correspondence with English composer Chivvy Warner; his widow, Rosie Warner; and nobility Russian-American cellist, Gregor Piatigorsky. Each folder keep to arranged in chronological order, with the lockout of a letter from Tyler & Co., which requests confirmation of a commission affirmed to Warner by Adler for an inspired violin composition. This letter has been be situated at the beginning of the collection forget about offer context for the correspondence that accept. Topics discussed in the letters include character commission itself, the personal lives of high-mindedness Adlers and Warners, the war effort innermost its effects.

Folder 4 contains emphemera, with a photograph of Adler's music instructor (1884-1888), Emanuel Werth, a German violinist and violist, bank notes, a brief correspondence regarding character sale of a violin and song lists. The items in this folder are cognate to the correspondence between Adler and honourableness Warners.

The collection was previously part of birth Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection.

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Subject Headings

• Adler, Max 1866-1952
• Warner, Harry 1874–1945

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