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| Description: | Stone "bee house". Writing on back: "An old stone bee house in Sarchem, Indiana. The hives were arranged on shelves on the inside, and the bees passed thro... |
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| Description: | Apiary of more than forty bee skeps stacked in rows in an open-fronted roofed structure. Caption reads: "Bienenstand der Firma HEINR. THIE, Wolfenbuttel." |
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| Description: | Beekeeper using a smoker on the top of an open hive without protective bee hat or gloves. |
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| Description: | View down hill of town in a valley. There is open land, homes, barns and a bee farm. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | An unidentified Wisconsin farmer surrounded by his beehives. |
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| Description: | Men working, possibly breeding queen bees, in Nonogakei apiary in Okucho, Japan, Owari domain (present day Aichi prefecture). |
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| Description: | Arthur C. Miller holding a slab of comb taken from the walls of a building. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| 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... |
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| Description: | Rooftop apiary, with two men sitting in the background. There are chimneys along the roofline on the right. |
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| Description: | Miniature Lincoln Monument made out of beeswax at the Illinois State Fair. In the background are displays of frames of honeycomb, with ribbons hanging from... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Wisconsin Beekeepers Association at the Wisconsin Markets Expo. |
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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. |
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| Description: | Hives on top of a shed in a flood. From Mr. J.D. Shields, Natchez, Mississippi. A part of his Louisiana apiary placed on a shed to prevent their being swep... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Gopher standing up on hind legs while chewing on a small twig. Lewis Francisco's "Honey Tester." Caption reads: "This is Billy, the Honey Tester. He belo... |
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| Description: | Unknown beekeeper holding up a frame full of bees. He is wearing overalls and a hat and is smoking a cigarette. There is another hive in the background. |
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| Description: | Stereograph of beehives housed in a raised open-sided shed with decorative finials at each end of the roof, scroll-style roof ridge molding, and a painted ... |
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| Description: | Home of E. France & Son. The buildings from left to right are: Warehouse No. 2 (partially blocked by 20 foot tall spruce hedge), Warehouse No. 3, 160 colon... |
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| Description: | Apiary in Japan, with light snow on the ground and a man standing on the right near a small building. Experimental apiary on the northeastern part of the m... |
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