Remember the joy of making a contact sheet of your negs and carefully selecting which one to print? Then watching the magic happen when the print appeared in the developer tray for the first time...and we all thought we were Ansel. The Historic Frederick Maryland Images Collection will be approximately 25 of the best glass plate images from an early Studio Photographer named John Davis Byerly. 'Davis', as he was known, had a Portrait Studio at 29 North Market Street in Frederick, Maryland (Today it is still called the Byerly Building). He took over the business from his father Jacob, who...more
