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Covered Apiary

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Description: Simmins' cover apiary.
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Honey Display Window

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Description: Window display of honey and bee products. Decorative bee skep, hive boxes, comb honey, candles, two observation hive frames of bees, photographs, and small...
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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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Family Sitting in Apiary

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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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Bird's-Eye View

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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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Young Man Holding Swarm

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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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Yansky Apiary

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Description: Frank Yansky Apiary of 92 swarms.
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Beekeeper

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Description: A beekeeper stands outside in protective clothing.
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Man Checks Beehives

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Description: Beekeeper checks his beehives.
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Dadant & Sons

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Description: Exterior of Dadant and Sons Beekeeper Supplies.
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Erwin Alfonsus with Bees

Date: 08 09 1934
Description: Portrait of Erwin Alfonsus, University of Wisconsin entomology department's "bee man," with hand covered with bees. There are beehives in the background.
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A.I. Root Company Bee Supplies Display

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Description: Display of beekeeping equipment from A.I. Root Company from Medina, Ohio.
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Beekeeper Weighing Small Hive on Birdhouse

Date: 09 18 1981
Description: A beekeeper, wearing a bee suit, including gloves, and a hat with a veil, is crouching down and weighing a beehive that is attached to a birdhouse.
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Man Standing in Apiary

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Description: An unknown man wearing a hat and holding a bee smoker is standing in an apiary in the woods. There are two tree stumps in the foreground that are burned.
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Swarm Catcher

Date: 04 06 1891
Description: S.D. Haskin's swarm catcher.
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Juneau County Honey Display

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Description: Honey display from the Juneau County Beekeepers Association.
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House Apiary

Date: 1877
Description: House apiary in Minnesota.
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A.J. Root Apiary

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Description: A.J. Root apiary in the winter.
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Miniature Apiary

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Description: Miniature apiary owned by Mr. L.H. Bremen.
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Beekeeping Class

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Description: Beekeeping class in progress. All participants are wearing protective bee veils and hats, and some are wearing gloves. A crate or hive box in the backgroun...

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