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Honey Display

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Description: Honey display for Honey Week (November 19-25). W.E. Reim, C.E. Trout.
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Beeswax Lincoln Monument

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Description: Miniature Lincoln Monument made out of beeswax at the Illinois State Fair. In the background are displays of frames of honeycomb, with ribbons hanging from...
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Officers of the Rusk County Beekeepers Association

Date: 1931
Description: Group of men at the Rusk County Beekeepers Association, standing near table of honey display. Center - R. Knudtson, Glen Flora, President. Right - A. D. Ca...
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Baking Contest

Date: 1926
Description: Entries in the Lewis Baking Contest. Seven tables full of plates of desserts are displayed in a large room.
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A.I. Root Company Bee Supplies Display

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Description: Display of beekeeping equipment from A.I. Root Company from Medina, Ohio.
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Honey Display at American Honey Producers' League Convention

Date: 01 1928
Description: Honey display at the American Honey Producers' League Convention. A painting or mural is used as a backdrop. On display are many different varieties of hon...
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Honey and Dessert Display

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Description: A table display of honey, honeycomb, and honey sweetened desserts. The display is centered around a figurine of a woman holding ribbons, which extend to th...
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Four Men at the American Honey Producers League Convention

Date: 01 1928
Description: Group portrait of four men: C.L. Corkins, H.F. Wilson, C.W. Hartman, and Frank Rauchfuss standing in front of a display of honey in jars, and boxes of hone...
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Monterey County Honey Display

Date: 01 1928
Description: Slightly elevated view of a honey display for Monterey County, California. At the American Honey Producers' League Convention.
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Apiary of F.H. Stacey

Date: 1916
Description: Backyard apiary consisting of a large group of numbered beehives on a platform in front of a house. Behind them is a man standing wearing a vest and hat. W...
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Two Men with Beehives

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Description: Two men standing posing outdoors behind beehives. Square honeycomb and full frames are displayed on top of hives. In the background on the right is a build...
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Albert Peglow in Apiary

Date: 1923
Description: Wisconsin beekeeper Albert Peglow posed standing outdoors among beehives in apiary.
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Jennie Matzke Inspecting Beehive

Date: 1924
Description: Jennie Matzke standing on a block to open and inspect the top of a tall beehive. She is wearing a hat with a bee veil, and there are a number of hives arou...
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G.W. Estes and Children with Frames and Honeycomb

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Description: G.W. Estes and two young girls, standing in a storeroom. Hive boxes with frames are on the floor. Along the walls are shelves stacked with square boxes of ...
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Hot Plate Foundation Fastener

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Description: Original hot plate foundation fastener by Arthur Charles Miller, beekeeper. The plate is heated with the use of a glass hurricane lamp.
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A.C. Miller's Bee Veil

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Description: Beekeeper Arthur Charles Miller's bee veil rolled up in someone's hand.
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Brovald Moving Beehives

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Description: Andrew C. Brovald moving a hive with a wooden wheelbarrow. A row of beehives are on the left, and more beehives are sitting in the grass in the background....
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H.F. Wilson in His Bee Yard at Home

Date: 1923
Description: Beekeeper H.F. Wilson sitting among his hives in a backyard apiary. To his left, a hive smoker is resting on a hive letting off smoke. There are a least 25...
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Bees Swarming on Traffic Signal

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Description: Photograph of a swarm of bees on an "iron Policeman" in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Caption reads: "One of the most noval [sic] pictures ever taken or ever publi...

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Rooftop Beehive in Winter

Date: 12 10 1929
Description: Beehive tied down onto a roof, covered in snow. Stenciled on one of the hive boxes is the word: "JUMBO." Belongs to E.W. Brown, an apiculturist from Willow...

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