Mother’s day is celebrated at different times in the year, depending on the country. For example, in the Arab World, Mother’s day is on March 21 (Spring Equinox or thereabouts), a tradition that dates back to the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. In many countries around the world, including the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, Italy, Denmark, and Ghana, Mother’s Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May.
In the United States, the origins of the official holiday go back to 1870, with the publication of The "Appeal to womanhood throughout the world" (later known as "Mothers' Day Proclamation") by Julia Ward Howe. The proclamation was a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. The appeal was tied to Howe's feminist conviction that women had a responsibility to shape their societies at the political level.
In 1872 Howe asked for the celebration of a "Mothers' Day for Peace" on 2 June of every year, but she was unsuccessful.
In 1907, Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, began the campaign to have Mother’s Day officially recognized. While the day she established was different in significance from what Howe had proposed, Anna Jarvis was reportedly inspired by her mother's work with Julia Ward Howe.
In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson officially proclaimed Mother’s Day a national holiday and a “public expression of our love and reverence for all mothers.”
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www.loc.gov/item/2016817149/
Title
•The mother
Names
•Melchers, Gari, 1860-1932, artist
•Detroit Publishing Co., copyright claimant
•Detroit Publishing Co., publisher
Created / Published
•c[between 1900 and 1920]
Notes
•- Photograph of a painting signed "Gari Melchers."
•- Detroit Publishing Co. no. M 601.
•- Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Source Collection
•Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Digital Id
•det 4a26263 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/det.4a26263
Library of Congress Control Number
•2016817149
LCCN Permalink
•https://lccn.loc.gov/2016817149
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www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsc.01036/
Title
•Present day mother and child ... not pure Negro
Created / Published
•[between 1937 and ca. 1938]
Headings
•- African Americans--Women--1930-1940
•- Freedmen--Arkansas--Little Rock--1930-1940
•- Mothers & children--Arkansas--Little Rock--1930-1940
•- United States--Arkansas--Little Rock
Notes
•- Title transcribed from item.
•- 30676.
•- Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narratives collections.
Source Collection
•Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narratives collections
Digital Id
•ppmsc 01036 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.01036
•cph 3c25148 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c25148
Library of Congress Control Number
•99615222
LCCN Permalink
•https://lccn.loc.gov/99615222
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www.loc.gov/item/90710741/
Title
•Solid comfort
Summary
•Navajo Indian woman carrying sleeping child on back.
Names
•Pennington & Rowland, copyright claimant
Created / Published
•c1914.
Headings
•- Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Women--1910-1920
•- Navajo Indians--Women--1910-1920
•- Mothers & children--Southwest, New--1910-1920
•- Children sleeping--Southwest, New--1910-1920
Notes
•- 196391 U.S. Copyright Office.
•- Photograph copyrighted by Pennington (William M.) and Rowland (Wesley R.), 1914.
Digital Id
•cph 3c01322 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c01322
Library of Congress Control Number
•90710741
LCCN Permalink
•https://lccn.loc.gov/90710741
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c. 1955
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