Dear DagNews readers, I'd like to take opportunity today to mention an exhibition currently on view in Washington, D.C. that is also available on-line: - - - - - A Durable Memento Portraits by Augustus Washington African American Daguerreotypist An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery September 24, 1999 through January 2, 2000 http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/awash/ This exhibition presents thirty-two daguerreotypes from Washington's career as the proprietor of one of the first daguerreian studios in Hartford, Connecticut, and his early years in Liberia after he immigrated there in 1853. I will also mention the exhibition booklet by Ann M. Shumard: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/awash/awbook.htm There is also a Washington Post review of the exhibition at: http://yp.washingtonpost.com/E/E/WASDC/0000/91/82/cs1.html (With thanks to Dennis Gannon for keeping me current about the exhibition) -------------------------------------------------------------- 11-10-99