New York Historian Brian Merlis has been collecting vintage photography from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. He is considered among his peers as an expert in the field and will go to great lengths to research, restore and print quality images. An accomplished traditional printer that uses state of the art technigues to produce an image as close the original as possible. Having been collecting for over 25 years his collections are impressive and cover just about every area from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Brian has spoke several times at the Brooklyn Historical Society dealing with several topics covering the history of this great city.