Description
For the first time, the Library of Congress presents a collection of touching and timeless photographs of children from its extraordinary photographic archive.
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 opened 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.
Also By: Robert Coles 
Old and on Their Own
Paperback, 2013
Long recognized for his work with young people, the prominent child psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Coles explores the lives of the elderly in Old and on Their Own.
The Youngest Parents
Paperback, 2003
"This is an important, revelatory book."—The New Yorker
The Erik Erikson Reader
Paperback, 2001
"This volume, ably assembled and introduced by Robert Coles, presents the Essential Erikson."—Howard Gardner
The Youngest Parents
Hardback, 1997
Prominent child psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Coles asks us to shed our preconceptions and listen to the compelling voices of young women and men who are soon to become...
25 and Under: Fiction
Paperback, 1997
Selected from an extensive nationwide search, this book of fifteen stories by American writers twenty-five years old and younger introduces a new generation of literary talent.