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| Description: | Young man standing next to a bee skep while holding a swarm of bees. German writing on back: "Mein John Felix." |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a woman and five young girls and teenagers each holding a frame from a beehive, full of bees. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A.C. Bunnill, a beekeeper from Madison, and his child. |
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| Description: | Dr. K. Bruennich, standing on a step ladder, holding a basket or skep, and with a cigar in his mouth, collecting a swarm of bees from a tree. Germany. |
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| Description: | Hives on top of a shed in a flood. From Mr. J.D. Shields, Natchez, Mississippi. A part of his Louisiana apiary placed on a shed to prevent their being swep... |
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| Description: | Apiary in Japan, with light snow on the ground and a man standing on the right near a small building. Experimental apiary on the northeastern part of the m... |
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| Description: | View across water of beehives on top of a shed in a flood. Writing on photograph: "From Mr. J.D. Shields, Natchez, Mississippi. A picture of part of his Lo... |
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| Description: | Beekeeper L.A. Smith standing next to hive boxes stacked on top of each other, exposing the frames. There is a swarm of bees on a hive box on the ground. |
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| Description: | Baby seated in the apiary of M.A. Dalazer. A man is standing on the right. |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of Miss Lucille Johnson, a young girl in a white dress with a bow in her hair. She is squatting behind a large bowl of bees, hands ou... |
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| Description: | Stone "bee house". Writing on back: "An old stone bee house in Sarchem, Indiana. The hives were arranged on shelves on the inside, and the bees passed thro... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| 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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| 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... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin beekeeper Albert Peglow posed standing outdoors among beehives in apiary. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| 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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| 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.... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 10 1929 |
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| 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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| Description: | Swarm of bees on the front tire and fender of a motorcycle parked outdoors. |
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| Description: | Beekeeper using a smoker on the top of an open hive without protective bee hat or gloves. |
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