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| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Richard M. Nixon welcomed by Barbara Bird, Honey Queen, and Wisconsin Governor Vernon W. Thomson with cheese package at the Oshkosh Airport. |
| 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: | 12 10 1910 |
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| Description: | A man displays a stick that has bees and honeycomb hanging from it. |
| Date: | 01 06 1909 |
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| Description: | A man and woman sit in a field near a large stand of beehives. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Three of the wives of the Rusk County Beekeepers Association. From left to right they are the wives of Robert Knudtson, Leslie Yancey, and A.D. Calkins. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Stacy Apiaries with beehives in the foreground and a house and people in the background. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Apiary of August Diehnelt with a large group of people. Mr Diehnelt is just above the arrow. |
| Date: | 05 19 1914 |
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| Description: | A group portrait of Iowa and Wisconsin beekeepers in the woods with houses in the background. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Jennie Matzke holds up a slate of honey comb covered in bees, while sitting next to numerous beehives. |
| Date: | 04 05 1961 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Wiley, wife of Senator Alexander Wiley (R., Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin), presented with a box of honey by the Wisconsin Honey Queen. Next to her is her... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Nadji Olson of Warrens, Wisconsin, the 1970 Wisconsin Honey Queen. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Walworth Fairest of the Fair, Governor Knowles and the Wisconsin Honey Queen all holding a bottle of honey at the Walworth County Fair. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | John Amos and Wilbur Allio wear protective veils and are standing on either side of a hive of bees. |
| Date: | 10 05 1948 |
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| Description: | Two fourth graders at Lincoln School, Freddiemae Hill, left, and Russell Allen, Jr, right, are observing 10,000 bees that are preparing for winter in their... |
| Date: | 10 16 1950 |
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| Description: | Judy Russell is pointing to the queen bee in the colony at the Marquette School sixth grade classroom; she's discovered that all activity centers about the... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Robert E. Bodoh checks on the condition of a hive by opening it using smoke to calm the bees. Bodoh wears a protective hat with mesh veil. Several other hi... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Robert E. Bodoh kneels next to a shipment of pollen. Bodoh, in a protective beekeeper hat, holds a fist-full of pollen in his hand. |
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