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Gift of John K. Gates on February 1992.
The collection is arranged in 20 series based on subject and geographic location. An item level inventory exists in the archives.
The collection was obtained from John K. Gates with assistance from Fred Heztel, former director of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
John Gates Photograph Collection, ca. 1889-1930, AIS.1991.22, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digital reproductions of the collection are available electronically at http://historicpittsburgh.org/collection/john-gates-photographs.
John Gates Photograph Collection, ca. 1889-1930, AIS.1991.22, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh
Folders D and E from Series II can be found in the University Archives flat, vertical file 7-5.
The John Gates Photograph Collection contains 239 images from the late-nineteenth century through the early-twentieth century that were collected by John K. Gates, a Uniontown, Pennsylvania, photographer. A number of these photographs were taken by a photographer identified only as "W.B" who captured various views of downtown Pittsburgh, Forbes Field, construction of the Ohio River bridge in Beaver, Pa., and other landscape and industrial scenes. The rest of the collection is very broad in scope, with images representing transportation, industrial, and mining history, as well as images of everyday life and notable subjects including Phipps Conservatory, Highland Park, H.C. Frick Coke Company, the Washington Monument, Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia, a Civil War Soldiers Monument, and Chautauqua, NY.
John K. Gates is a former Uniontown and Pittsburgh resident who traces his interest in photography to his father, a photographer. A dentist in Danville, Pennsylvania, he has used his keen interest in photography to collect photographs of others as well as create his own works.
Gates has published several pictorials highlighting the photographs he has collected. These include, A Touch of Nostalgia: A Glimpse of America's Past, In Other Years: Uniontown and Southern Fayette County, and The Beehive Coke Years : A Pictorial History of Those Times.
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