Journey across Pennsylvania with Walter Choroszewski, who presents a special collection of images featuring beloved landmarks, natural landscapes people and intimate vignettes of the Keystone State. PENNSYLVANIA, A Photographic Journey, is Choroszewski's 14th book and showcases his colorful style with over 175 photos from every corner of the state - mountains, cities and farms. Walter Choroszewski has been traveling the highways and back roads of Pennsylvania his entire life, visiting favorite locations and seeking new views. He invites us to join him on this visual journey to enjoy the beauty he has found. He also shares a personal essay about his early childhood living in the coal region of Northeastern PA and also about his college years and travels to various other locations of his native state.

Between 1935 and 1946 a group of photographers working for the federal government fanned out across the country to record American life in pictures. This massive photographic project, carried out primarily under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the Office of War Information (OWI) and later preserved at the Library of Congress, was unrivaled in scope: no comparable attempt to document life in this country has ever been made. The Times of Sorrow and Hope features 150 selected images from the approximately 6,000 Pennsylvania photographs. These images cover themes ranging from coal mining, steelworkers, and women in wartime industries to cities and small towns, farm life, family life, and life among the Amish and Mennonites. The book also includes an essay introducing the FSA's own project, an introduction to the catalog of the entire collection of Pennsylvania photographs, and a historical essay on Pennsylvania during the Great Depression and World War II.