page_title: Joshua Bates (financier)
hierarchical_section_title: Joshua Bates (financier)
caption_attribution_description: cropped version of Joshua Bates. 1850 (approximate). Photograph&#160;: whole plate daguerreotype&#160;; in case 21 x 16 cm., framed to 33 x 28 cm. Joshua Bates, original benefactor to the Boston Public Library; The McKim Building's Bates Hall Reading Room is named in memoriam to Bates; Gift of Thomas W. Ward, ca. 1918.
context_page_description: Joshua Bates was an American international financier who divided his life between the United States and the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: Joshua Bates (October 10, 1788 – September 24, 1864) was an American international financier who divided his life between the United States and the United Kingdom.
caption: Bates daguerreotype, c. 1850
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