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Honey Bee

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Description: Honey bee.
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Worker Bee

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Description: View from top of worker bee.
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Bee Skep

Date: 1932
Description: Bee Skep.
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Bee Skep Interior

Date: 1932
Description: Bee skep turned over to show bees and combs inside.
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Bee House on Wheels

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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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University of Minnesota Bee Culture

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Description: Display for the University of Minnesota's Division of Bee Culture. An unknown man wearing a suit and tie and holding a hive frame stands near the display. ...
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Stone Bee House

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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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German Bee Skep Apiary

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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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Beekeeper Smoking Hive

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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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T.M. Yullick and Bee Swarm

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Description: Mr. T.M. Yullick holds onto a branch with a swarm of bees.
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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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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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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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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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Wisconsin State Bee Keepers Association Membership Certificate

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Description: Wisconsin State Bee Keepers Association membership certificate, signed by N.E. France Association President. No. 148. Illustrations of clover flowers and b...
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"My First Catch" A Swarm of Bees

Date: 08 28 1908
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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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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Advertising Trade Sample Card Bee Keeping

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Description: A colored illustration, featuring in the center a young girl standing by a modern bee hive and holding a smoker in her left hand. Her right hand is resting...

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