A 4"x6" glass plate negative, portrait photograph of Claude R. Frater and Archie Gates. Archie is dressed in dark slacks and lighter-colored, double-breasted suit coat, white shirt, knotted polka-dot tie and a wide-brimmed felt hat pushed back on his head. Claude is wearing a dark suit, white shirt with knotted tie and a straw boater hat with wide, dark ribbon tied around the crown.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00092180000
Source
Original format: 4"x6" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Claude R. Frater was born March 6, 1886, in Iowa to John J. and Lillian Kennedy Frater. John Frater owned a drugstore in downtown David City, Nebraska. After graduation, Claude moved to Ketchnikan, Alaska, where he worked as a druggist for the Walker Drug Co. Archie Gates was born in Butler County, Nebraska, September 9, 1888, to Gideon and Jennie Gates. He married Rose Helen Styskal, October 26, 1910, at St. Mary's Church in David City. He worked in the Gates Bakery in downtown David City for a short time before moving to Long Beach, California, with his wife and two children. Archie died April, 1966, St. Louis, Missouri.
