Seattle Camera Club

[2] The driving force behind the club's formation was Dr. Kyo Koike, who was a well‒respected medical doctor in Seattle's Issei community.

[3] The club's bulletin was called Notan, which is a Japanese term that roughly translates as "light and shade".

The artistic strength of their membership is indicated by the fact that in 1926 members of the club showed a collective 589 prints in different exhibitions around the world.

[1] Two prominent Seattle women, Ella McBride and Virna Haffer, were among the club's members by that time.

[7] Soon thereafter the membership in the club began to decline, primarily due to increasing economic difficulties that led up to the 1929 Great Depression.