Here Are The Most Beautiful Photos Of Motherhood Over The Past 100 Years
A century of motherhood in pictures.
1900

A mother from the Hopi tribe with her child on her back.
1910

A mother tends to her children in a Romany encampment.
1928

A mother and her child of the Bantu Tribe in South Africa.
1935

A mom pulls her kids to school through floodwaters in England.
1940

A mom, with a gas mask for her baby, gets ready to evacuate London during WWII.
1950

A mom brushes her daughter’s hair in Fiji.
1957

A mom breastfeeds her baby in Beit Hanun, Gaza Strip.
1963

This is 25-year-old Mary Brooks in Liverpool, England with her nine children, including twins and triplets.
1968

Mothers and fathers take prenatal classes at a British hospital during a time when fathers were first starting to take part in their child’s birth.
1968

A mother kissing her newborn baby (location unknown).
1970

A mom plays with her baby during a London music festival.
1970

A new mom and dad look on as their newborn baby has its umbilical cord cut in an American hospital.
1985

A mom and her children wait for food and medical care at a refugee camp near Korem in Northern Ethiopia.
1989

An East German mother and her two children hold pieces of the Berlin Wall at the crossing point into the West.
1999

An ethnic Albanian mother cradles her baby in Lapusnik, Kosovo two days after returning from a refugee camp in Albania where she lived for three months with her children.
2002

An Afghan mom is examined in the maternity ward of a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.
2002

A mother and her daughter flee fighting in the western Ivory Coast town of Man.
2008

A pregnant mother hears her child’s beating heart in Manila, Philippines.
2013

A mom with her 8-year-old limbless daughter at Mỹ Đình National Stadium in Từ Liêm District, Hanoi, Vietnam.
2017

An Indian mother takes a selfie with her child dressed as the Hindu deity Krishna in Bangalore, India.
2017

Mothers breastfeed their children during the "Big Latch On" breastfeeding festival held at the Bonatic Garden of the Chapultepec Park in Mexico City.
2018

South Sudanese midwives deliver a baby at the Juba Teaching Hospital in South Sudan.