Sentence examples for durable memento from inspiring English sources
This daguerreotype takes pride of place in the exhibition "A Durable Memento: Portraits of Augustus Washington, African American Daguerreotypist" at the International Center of Photography Uptown.
"A Durable Memento: Portraits of Augustus Washington, African American Daguerreotypist" is at the International Center of Photography, Fifth Avenue at 94th Street, (212) 860-1777, through Sept. 24.
"A Durable Memento" will be on view at the Connecticut Historical Society, 1 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, until May 2. Museum exhibition hours are Tuesday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Admission is $6, $3 for seniors, students and children 6-17, fore for children under 6 and society members.
"A Durable Memento: Portraits by Augustus Washington, African-American Daguerreotypist" presents the work of a pioneer photographer and owner of a successful studio in Hartford, even as it documents his life as a free black man in pre-Civil War America and his later emigration to the West African nation of Liberia.
Prices of these "durable mementos," the ad also proclaimed, ranged from 50 cents to $10.
