The Photograph series in the Eddie Faye Gates collection is comprised of 12 legal size document boxes, 2 3" O-Ring Preservation Box albums, and 1 flip-top photographic film negative box, containing a total of 732 photographs and 26 photo negative strips comprised of 81 individual frames. These photographs date from the early 20th century to approximately 2010. There are many notable people and events documented in these photographs.

Some notable people found in the photographs are various members of Eddie Faye Gates’ family including Mildred Williams (née Peevyhouse), who is a cousin of Eddie Faye Gates and the wife of Lloyd Hume Williams, Sr., a prominent pharmacist and owner of Williams Drug Store at 119 North Greenwood, and other family members. Tulsa race massacre survivors Otis Granville Clark, Genevieve Tillman Jackson, Delois Vaden Ramsey, Thelma Thurman Knight, Roanna Henry McClure, Jo Pearl Jarrett, Hugh and Naomi Hollins Robert Fairchild, Eldoris Mae McCondichie, James Steward, Thelma Harrison, Samuel Walker and daughter Joyce Walker Hill; Cecil White, William Harold Woods and Cledie Lee Woods, Robert and Anita Holloway, Verneice Dunn Sims, Ralph Knight, Hal "Cornbread" Singer, Wess Young, Sr. Prominent lawyers and politicians Johnnie Cochran, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Representative Maxine Waters, Representative Al Green, Representative Bobby Lee Rush, Representative Melvin "Mel" Luther Watt, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, Representative Don Ross, Mayor Henry Cisneros, Senator Maxine Horner, lawyer Adjoa Aiyetoro, Judge Hubert Bryant, and Senator Barack Obama. Musicians that appear in these photographs include Useni Eugene Perkins, Alfred Stanley Dennie, JAP Allen's Cotton Club Orchestra, Ernie Fields, Straw-hat-John Quenton Brown, Clarence Love, Mozelle Lewis, Tony Matthews, Lowell Fulson, Shelby Minner, Lionel Hampton, Mercer Ellington and The Duke Ellington Orchestra, Stanley Jordan, Diane Schur, and Miss Yoko Sisasawa. Several prominent clergy members appear in the photographs including Reverend B.S. Roberts, Reverend Billy Jarrett, Reverend Benjamin Harrison Hill, Reverend Andrew Young, and Reverend Benjamin Hooks. Some of the historians, journalists, and activists who appear in this collection include Michael Rosenbaum, senior producer of 60 Minutes II, Dr. Charles Bate, Dr. Charles Ogletree, Jr., Dr. Olivia Hooker, Dorothy Irene Height, Elise Pierce of People Magazine, Dr. Cecelia Nails Palmer, Director of the United States Commission on Civil Rights Arthur Fletcher, Dr. John Hope Franklin, Dr. Scott Ellsworth, and Hannibal Johnson. Other notable people include Mark Stodghill, the Chair for the Tulsa Reparations Committee; Dr. Vivian Clark Adams, daughter of Malcom X Attallah Shabazz, Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Lawrence Reed, Mabel B. Little, Dr. John Arrondondo, Dr. Louis Ballard, and Dr. Melvin Todd.

Many notable events are documented in these photographs such as Eddie Faye Gates' trip to the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., the 75th Riot Commemoration Program at Mt. Zion Baptist Church gymnasium in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the 1990 Human Rights Seminar in Tulsa, the 1991 Tulsa Metropolitan Ministries Racism Conference, The National Black Legislative Caucus 1987 Planning Youth Conference at the Tulsa Press Club, the 1990 National Alliance of Black School Educators Convention, Tulsa Reparations Commission meetings, the Tulsa Centennial celebration, the First Church of Christ Scientist, Perryman Ranch in Tulsa, Pennies Project for the North Tulsa Heritage Foundation to decorate the heritage house on Greenwood, The HB1017 Rally at Boulder Park, book signings at many places including Nowata High School and Reading Across America at the North-Yuca Wiley Post School, the American Red Cross Hero Awards, Sisters Sipping Tea literary group events, the Metropolitan Tulsa Urban League Community Leaders Panel and Support Group. There are images of North Tulsa Business and Professional Women's Club, First Wednesday Reading Club events , Tulsa Metropolitan Ministries Racism Conference and Education Workshop, Bob Burton Tribute at Gilcrease Museum, Greenwood Cultural Center, as well as images from Tulsa Juneteenth, Tulsa Jazz Festival events, and trips to New York City and abroad for the Summer Holocaust Fellowship and United Nations tour, including images of views from the Empire State Building and various places in Poland including the Pomnik Bohaterow Getta-The Monument to the Ghetto Heroes. (Warsaw, Poland). The Photograph series also contains 26 strips of photo negatives, with 81 individual frames. Originally located in the rear pocket of the blue photo album (Box 6: Blue Photo Album) and folders 12 and 13 in Box 10: Miscellaneous Photographs; these materials have been separated and are located in Box 15.