When They Were Young : A Photographic Retrospective of Childhood from the Library of Congress

Married with heartfelt prose by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Coles and a foreword by Librarian of Congress James H.

Billington, When They Were Young reveals that the experience of childhood is connected across time through a broad presentation of eloquent images.

Spanning the history of photography from the daguerreotype to documentary, each tritone image in this volume is illustrated on a full page.

Works by internationally renowned photographers such as Edward Curtis and Dorothea Lange are included.

The companion exhibition, When They Were Young: A Photographic Retrospective of Childhood opens in Fall 2002 in the Library's Jefferson Building.

The publication and exhibition will be featured at the Library's annual National Book Festival. 78 full-page tritone photographs.