The labelling continued - a concise memento recognised by everyone.
He writes that the photographs 'stand as a "memento mori", presenting an architecture of memory - a recollection of function without utility, of space without time'.
Of course such mementos also had religious connotations.
They now served as scenery, and the rise of photography, with its ethnographic devotion to salvaging mementos of a lost frontier, would not save them.
Interspersed repeats and other mementos of transposable elements in mammalian genomes.
Often the letter itself became a memento of emotional or later commercial value.
The high price of such a memento would undoubtedly have restricted it to the rising liberal middle-classes.
Verbal and visual, private and portable, the literary portrait is a memento of an exciting reading experience.
