http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8gh9h87 No online items Finding Aid for the David Adler papers, circa 1911-circa 1940 0000157 Finding aid prepared by Chris Marino Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum Arts Building Room 1434 University of California Santa Barbara, California, 93106-7130 805-893-2724 [email protected] Finding Aid for the David Adler 0000157 1 papers, circa 1911-circa 1940 0000157 Title: David Adler papers Identifier/Call Number: 0000157 Contributing Institution: Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum Language of Material: English Physical Description: 7.0 Linear feet(4 boxes and 1 flat file folder) Date (inclusive): circa 1911-circa 1940 creator: Adler, David A., 1882-1949 Access Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers. Preferred Citation note David Adler papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara. Biographical/Historical note David Adler was born on January 3, 1882 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He attended Princeton University and graduated in 1904. Following Princeton, from 1904 to 1906, Adler attended the Ecole des Beaux- Arts working in the Atelier of Umbdenstock and Deglane. He worked as a draftsman at Howard Van Doren Shaw, Architects in Chicago, Illinois. Adler then went into a partnership with Henry C. Dangler to form Adler and Dangler, Architects. In 1917, Henry C. Dandler died, and Adler when into partnership with Robert Work to form Adler and Work, Architects, which lasted from 1917 to 1929. Adler primarily worked in Chicago where the majority of his work consisted of large-scale estates for the social elite. Adler received some commissions in California, however, often collaborating with his sister, interior designer, Frances Elkins. David Adler died in 1949. Scope and Content note The David Adler papers span 7 linear feet and date from circa 1911 to 1940. The collection contains black-and-white photographs and color kodachrome prints, a newspaper clipping, a stereoscope, and stereographic cards. The photographs and clipping are of the David B. Jones house on Pepper Hill in Montecito, California. The stereographic cards are unidentified images of nature. Related Archival Materials note The David Adler Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago. Subjects and Indexing Terms Adler, David A., 1882-1949 Architectural drawings Photographic prints Reprographic copies Finding Aid for the David Adler 0000157 2 papers, circa 1911-circa 1940 0000157.