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Wisconsin Farm

Date: 1873
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...
Photograph

Man in front of Fence

Date: 1873
Description: A bearded man is standing in the foreground in front of a fence, and a person is sitting on the fence on the right. Two people are standing on the hill beh...
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Farm and Rolling Hills

Date: 1873
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...
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Farmer with Elaborate Fencing and Farmyard

Date: 1873
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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Family at end of Path

Date: 1872
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. ...
Photograph

Swarm Catcher

Date: 04 06 1891
Description: S.D. Haskin's swarm catcher.
Photograph

House Apiary

Date: 1877
Description: House apiary in Minnesota.
Photograph

Beehive Farm

Date: 1895
Description: A man stands with fifty beehives on the farm of Bernhard Volkering in East Farmington. Trees and farm buildings surround the hives.
Print

J. Vandervort Letterhead

Date: 1884
Description: Letterhead from the office of J. Vandervort, Practicle Apiarist and Manufacturer of Comb Foundation Machines. Laceyville, PA., July 28 1884.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Geared Rotary Honey Extractor Advertisement

Date: 1872
Description: Advertisement for the Improved Geared Rotary Honey Extractor for 1872. Manufactured by Gray and Winder of Cincinnati, OH. Illustrations of two different mo...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

The Western Queen Bee Hive Advertisement

Date: 1872
Description: An advertisement for an Improvement in Movable Frame Bee Hives, The Western Bee Hive. Patented January 9, 1872 by H. Staggs from Topeka Kansas. Claims to b...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Mid Buzzing Bees Advertisement

Date: 1897
Description: Advertisement for the American Bee Journal from Chicago, Illinois found in Agricultural Advertising. There is a lined border around the text ...

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