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| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Bee skep turned over to show bees and combs inside. |
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| Description: | Bee house on wheels. A rectangular structure with a roof and openings along the side, sitting among trees. |
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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: | 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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| Description: | View down hill of town in a valley. There is open land, homes, barns and a bee farm. |
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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." |
| 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: | 09 18 1981 |
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| 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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| 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. |
| Date: | 08 28 1908 |
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| Description: | 8-year-old Verna Hohman holding a tree branch with a swarm of bees. Caption reads: "'My First Catch' A Swarm of Bees." Sent to the American Bee Journal<... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Jennie Matzke standing on a block to open and inspect the top of a tall beehive. She is wearing a hat with a bee veil, and there are a number of hives arou... |
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| Description: | Close-up of a man's hand holding a frame of bees from a hive. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | An unidentified Wisconsin farmer surrounded by his beehives. |
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| Description: | Deacon Hardscrebble with straw hat and pipe. Dog in background. |
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| Description: | Close-up of a small swarm of bees on a man's back. He is wearing a white sweater, and a bee hat with veil. He is among a group of people, facing away from ... |
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