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Dr. Charles C. Miller Transferring Bees

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Description: Dr. Charles C. Miller transferring bees from stump to wire container.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Hubbard Bee Hive Advertisement

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Description: Newspaper clipping of an advertisement for the Hubbard Bee Hive illustrating contrasting types of beekeeping. The illustration is of two yards of beehives ...
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Beekeepers Standing in Apiary

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Description: A man and a boy pose standing in apiary surrounded by beehives. The man is holding a smoker.
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Dorothy Wright and Children with Bee Skep

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Description: Miss Dorothy Quincy Wright and two children sit on the ground next to a bee skep in yard surrounded by flowers. Linden apiary.
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Woman and Girls with Beehive Frames

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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.
Postcard

Miss Lucille Johnson with Bowl of Bees

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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...
Photograph

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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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...
Photograph

Apiary of J.E. Cady

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Description: View across field of the house and apiary of J.E. Cady. There is a man in a horse and carriage in front of the house. The carriage has a sign on the side t...
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Apiary of Elias Fox

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Description: Backyard apiary of Elias Fox. Chickens are in the yard among the numbered beehives. Fox and family are posing standing in the background in front of a fenc...
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Sitting Among Beehives

Date: 1910
Description: Alexander and Edgar Krueger sitting among a group of beehives. Edgar is holding a smoker in his hand. Behind them in the background is a building.

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