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| Title | Kyo Koike in group portrait (seated, 5th from left) |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | n.d. |
| Notes | Filed in Portraits--Koike, Kyo |
| Contextual Notes | Dr. Kyo Koike (1877-1947)
Filed in Portraits--Koike, Kyo
Born in Shimane Prefecture, Japan. Dr. Koike had worked as a physician in Okayama Prefecture. He moved to Seattle in 1916 to begin a medical practice, which he established in 1917. From 1919-1924 he taught himself to write in English and then translated over 30 volumes of literature from Japanese to English. He was also the leader and editor of the bilingual monthly magazine Notan, published from 1925-1929. He emerged as the leader of the Seattle Camera Club in 1924, with more than 20 other Japanese photographers who rose to national and international acclaim. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Photographers--Washington (State)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Koike, Kyo, 1878 or 9-1947
Japanese American physicians--Washington (State)
Japanese Americans--Washington (State)
Portraits, Group--Washington (State)
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)
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| Digital Collection | Portraits Collection
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| Order Number | POR0084
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| Negative Number | UW8507 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Portraits Collection |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 6 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2003 |
