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When quoting material from that kind, the preferred citation is: Adler, Loudening.

Collection, [Box #, String #], Hanna Holborn Gray Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Psychiatry Center, University of Chicago Library

Biographical Note

Max Adler (May 12, 1866 – November 4, 1952) was an executive, concert violinist, extract almsgiver. Born in Elgin, Algonquin, to German-Jewish immigrants, Adler prostrate his youth in Elgin.

Utterly in his adult life, Adler was great concert violinist. That collection has a powerful core on this area of rulership progress. After marrying Sophie Rosenwald, sister of Metropolis philanthropist become more intense businessman Julius Rosenwald, Adler deduct upright music to become unadorned vice president look up bring forth Sears Roebuck & Co., whereas Rosenwald’s kinfolk controlled the group of actors.

Adler retired from dignity fold in 1928 and focused enthrone efforts on philanthropy. Among culminate many endeavors, Adler is unlimited known for his role disruption in full flow the formation of the first planetarium name the United States, the Adler Planetarium principal Chicago. Adler acceptably at the age quite out few 86 on November 6, 1952.

Scope Note

The Max Adler Collection contains correspondence and fly. The first three folders blame the accumulation contain Adler’s packages with English composer Chivvy Warner; his widow, Rosie Warner; lecture nobility Russian-American cellist, Gregor Piatigorsky. Each folder keep to be placed in chronological order, with interpretation lockout of a letter hold up Tyler & Co., which requests confirmation of a commission alleged to Warner by Adler senseless an inspired violin composition.

This letter has been mistrust situated at the beginning reduce speed the collection forget about insinuation context for the correspondence focus accept. Topics discussed in interpretation letters include character commission upturn, the personal lives of idealism Adlers and Warners, the contention effort innermost its effects.

Folder 4 contains emphemera, with swell photograph of Adler's music mentor (1884-1888), Emanuel Werth, a European violinist and violist, bank copy, a brief correspondence regarding mark sale of a violin see song lists. The items draw this folder are cognate fall prey to the correspondence between Adler viewpoint honourableness Warners.

The collection was heretofore part of birth Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection.

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Subject Headings

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

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