Tour of my study.

Tour of my study.

Image by Greh Fox
The place in the house where I spend most of my time at. Photo did not go through much post processing. Adjusted the alignment, temperature & tint.

Click the photo and you'll be able to mouse-over to find out what's right on my desk.

Settings: Aperture: f/3.5, Exposure: 1/40, ISO100, EV 0, Range: 28mm

Equipment: Canon 40D + Contax Zeiss Vario-Sonnar 3.5-4.5/28-70mm T* Planar MF.
© Copyright Aaron Moraes. 2009. Some Rights Reserved.

Christmas Loot

Image by rikhei
What I got for Christmas. Not pictured is the awesome photo printer my parents got me. The notes are helpful, but you can also just look at the large size of this photo to get a better look. :)

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Image by Greene Connections
Funeral card of Emma (Coughanour) Hamilton [1846-1892] - wife of Frank Hamilton, daughter of Daniel Coughanour & Margaret Hood. The funeral card states that she "Died September 4, 1892. / Aged 45 years." Original, no printer listed. The Album 1 Series photographs are in a large photograph album which contains many unidentified images believed to be connected to the Coughanour family and including Hamilton, Woods, Yohe, and possibly Jones, relations. An inscription inside the front cover reads, “Presented to Grandpap / By / Bulger & Snider / Dec. 25, 1887.” Several handwritten inscriptions and a handful of funeral cards specifically name the Elliott, Hamilton, Miller, Woods and Yohe families. It is possible that the album may have passed from Hester (Coughanour) Yohe [1858-1938] to the family of her elder sister Alice (Coughanour) Woods [1849-1926] and brother-in-law Dr. Samuel D. Woods [1848-1930], with whom she lived out her last years. The album in combination with the additional contents of the James A. Boyer Collection was recovered from the home of Dr. Samuel D. Woods [1848-1930] and his wife, Alice Coughanour [1849-1926], after more than 75 years of storage. At the time of recovery the home was being sold after 105 years of continuous family ownership. The collection had passed with the ownership of the Woods home in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, as follows, Dr. Samuel D. Woods [1848-1930] and his wife, Alice Coughanour [1849-1926], to their son Alfred H. Woods [1875-1960] and his wife, Mary Ellen Hill [1879-1954], to their descendants Samuel D. Woods, Mary Frances (Woods) Myers, Virginia (Woods) Boyer [1904-1986], and Alfred William Boyer, until the majority of the collection was recovered by James Alexander Boyer and his wife, Lucinda Bowers, who shared the collection with with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Photo Archives Project in 2006.

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Image by Greene Connections
Funeral card of Osee Kent - daughter of John T. Kent & Eliza Bell. Original, no printer listed. The funeral card states that she "Died Feb. 26, 1889. Aged 10 yrs. 8 mos. 19 dys." The Jacobs-Kent Series probably began with Eleanor Ann (Kent) Jacobs [1832-1902], wife of Henry Moore Jacobs, and daughter of David Kent & Elizabeth Barnes. Eleanor's photographs were passed to her son Joseph Warren Jacobs [1868-1947] to his daughter Helen Mae (Jacobs) Fonner [1922-1999] to her daughter Anna (Fonner) Blystone who with her husband, George Blystone, owned and shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Photo Archives Project in 2005. Each generation added to the collection with photographs from their own family and in-laws. The Jacobs-Kent Series is a part of the Helen Mae (Jacobs) Fonner Collection.

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Image by Greene Connections
Funeral card of John Anderson - husband of Anna Howshow. Original, no printer listed. The funeral card states that he died April 10, 1893, aged 78 years. The Watson-Anderson Series photographs were most likely passed from Robert Watson [1847-1942] and his wife, Catharine Anderson [1848-1933] to their daughter Ella May (Watson) Throckmorton [1893-1988] and her husband, Robert Lawrence Throckmorton, Sr. [1889-1964] to their daughter, Katherine Jane (Throckmorton) Toothman who owned and shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Photo Archives Project in 2006. The Watson-Anderson Series is a part of the Katherine Jane (Throckmorton) Toothman Collection.