It Takes Two

Portraits of twins, from the 1850s to 1950s.

National Library of Wales

Twin boys "who milk their cow everyday to get milk for their cats," Llanderfel, Wales, 1959.  Source

Yale Joel, LIFE © Time Inc.

Twin sisters reading, 1963. Source

Reykjavik Museum of Photography

Twins in straw hats, 1909-1910, Iceland. Source

Father's Day

Photos of dads and their kids, of course!

Nina Leen, LIFE © Time Inc.

A father playing with his child, undated. Source

Library of Congress

Karl Franz Josef (last Emperor of Austria-Hungary) with his son, 1913. Source

Ed Clark, LIFE © Time Inc.

A dad builds Lincoln Logs with his kids, Denver, 1953. Source

Mother's Day

We had a lovely set of mother and child photographs for UK Mother's Day; today, another set today, for mothers everywhere else.

Happy Mother's Day!

Photographs from the LIFE archive, uncaptioned and undated. 

LIFE archives © Time Inc.

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Mothering Sunday

Happy mother's day to those of you in the UK!

Absolutely adorable photographs of mothers and their children. These are unfortunately without captions ("LIFE mystery photographs"), but certainly cross the decades and countries. So lovely. 

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