Through White's influence and connections, the very next year the club mounted a large exhibit at the local YMCA that included prints by Alfred Stieglitz, F. Holland Day, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Gertrude Käsebier and Eva Watson-Schütze. The following year the same photographers were shown, along with prints by Robert Demachy, Zaida Ben-Yusuf, Frank Eugene and the then unknown Edward Steichen. In spite of Newark's small size and relative isolation from major cultural centers, the Newark Camera Club, led by White, quickly made the town "a force in the world of photography." By 1900 most of the major pictorial photographers in the U.S. had traveled to or were planning to travel to see White; according to one critic, he "brought the world to Newark".