A Bedouin mother, elaborately adorned with jewelry, gazes at her infant child in the early 1900s.
A mother in the Middle East breastfeeds her baby as she sits outside her home.
A mother and daughter watch for a signal fire through a telescope in Arizona's Grand Canyon.
A Javanese mother nurses her child on Java Island, Indonesia.
A young Algerian couple in Biskra stand with their toddler in front of a building.
Dressed in traditional clothing, a woman in northern Mongolia carries her son on her back.
A Toda infant child sleeps in her mother's embrace at Nilgiri Hill, near Madras, India.
A Ceylonese mother rests a child on her hip.
A Swiss mother reaches for her daughter's hand, which is full of flowers.
In the Yunnan Province, China, the horn-shaped hairstyle these women are wearing indicates they have had children.
A Chinese mother and her child wear traditional clothing from the Manchurian region of China.
A Slovak Hungarian immigrant to the United States holds her infant and stands by her son.
A Tingian woman carries a child on her back and balances a basket on her head in Luzon Island, Philippines.
A Russian immigrant to the United States stands with her three children.
A sleeping baby in a woven cradle hangs from his mother's head in Papua New Guinea.
An elderly Flemish grandmother in Belgium hugs a child.
A Sami woman, toddler, and infant in Lapland, Finland, sit on pelts that soften their surroundings and keep them warm. The infant is in a cradleboard, a traditional protective baby carrier.
A mother in Cambodia balances her child on her hip.
A Japanese woman carries her twins on her back with a cross wrap.
A maid and her mistress hold the hands of a small child while shopping for dishes on a Ter Goes sidewalk in Holland.
A Hungarian woman spins wool as her baby sleeps on her lap.
A mother holds her baby and a surgeon's yardstick while posing for a photo in Cuzco Valley, Peru.
Women walk hand in hand with their children in northern Mongolia.
A mother and child stand under corn hung to dry over the entrance to their home in Postyen, Hungary.
A mother carries her baby, surrounded by pillows, down the street in Mezokovesd, Hungary.