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| Date: | 08 09 1934 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Erwin Alfonsus, University of Wisconsin entomology department's "bee man," with hand covered with bees. There are beehives in the background. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Three people are posing in the foreground, with a man with a long beard standing in front of two women sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. There is a barn a... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View of a prosperous farmstead from a neighboring hill. A man is standing near a woman in a horse-drawn vehicle in front of a board fence in the foreground... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A farmer with a long beard and wearing a hat is standing in the foreground in front of a board fence, which is part of an elaborate system of fencing surro... |
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| Description: | Men in a grain field are piling hay or straw onto a wagon as one man stands on top of the pile. On the left is a windmill on a wooden tower and behind are ... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | A family is sitting at the end of a tree-lined path on a hill leading up to a frame house with a porch. A boy is sitting on the porch roof, which is flat. ... |
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| Description: | A woman demonstrates the use of a homemade bee catcher on a tree in her yard. |
| Date: | 01 06 1909 |
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| Description: | A man and woman sit in a field near a large stand of beehives. |
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| Description: | Mr. T.M. Yullick holds onto a branch with a swarm of bees. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | A dead bear in the apiary of W.O. Victor, and the remains of the apiary. There are several rifles next to the bear. |
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| Description: | A cyanotype postcard of a bee farmer working in his field. |
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| Description: | An artists rendition of a man showing a boy bees in a beehive. Caption reads: "'There, sonny! See the yellow pollen on their legs? They are carrying bee-br... |
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| Description: | George Hodges of Belmont, New York, in protective beekeeper clothing. He was a warden and a beekeeper for a number of years. His wife had died ten years ... |
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| Description: | A family, man, woman and infant, sitting under a tree in a bee apiary. Behind them are rows of hives. |
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| Description: | A man and woman hold up slates of honey comb covered in bees. |
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| Description: | An unidentified Wisconsin farmer surrounded by his beehives. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Barn, smoke house, and bake house at Weiss farm, residence of John Weiss, in the township of Saukville, Ozaukee County, one half mile from County Trunk Hwy... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | The state bee inspector (probably the man on the left), and a Dane County farmer. |
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| Description: | A person with a protective hood over his head poking a log filled with honey bees. |
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| Description: | View down hill of town in a valley. There is open land, homes, barns and a bee farm. |
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