Ben-Yusuf, Zaida. Zaida Ben-Yusuf: New York Portrait Photographer by Frank H. Goodyear III, et al.

Merrill, 2008. First edition, fine hardcover with very good protected dust jacket that has small spots of wear at extremities. 240 pages. “Zaida Ben-Yusuf (November 21, 1869 – September 27, 1933) was an American portrait photographer based in New York.  She was known for her artistic portraits of wealthy, fashionable, and famous Americans during the turn of the 19th–20th century.  In 1901, The Ladies Home Journal featured her and six other photographers as "The Foremost Women Photographers in America".   In 2008, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery mounted an exhibition dedicated solely to Ben-Yusuf's work, re-establishing her as a key figure in the early development of fine art photography.” (Wikipedia) Portraits of sitters in this book, issued in conjunction with the 2008 exhibition, include Theodore Roosevelt, Leonard Wood, Jacob Riis, Lincoln Steffens, Thomas Nast, Grover Cleveland, William Merritt Chase, Edith Wharton, Sadakichi Harmann, Ada Rehan, Julia Marlowe, Elbert Hubbard, Francis Marion Crawford, Mary French Sheldon, et al.  Substantial book, originally issued at $59.95.