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| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Bee skep turned over to show bees and combs inside. |
| 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. |
| 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<... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Bookplate from the Cowan Memorial Library presented to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries by the British Beekeepers Association 1928. The illustrati... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 01 1936 |
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| Description: | A photograph of a book page with illustration of American Foul Brood at various stages. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 12 10 1910 |
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| Description: | A man displays a stick that has bees and honeycomb hanging from it. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Dr. Charles C. Miller standing among his beehives. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Music and lyrics to "Buckwheat Cakes and Honey." Portraits of Eugene Secor and George W. Work are at left and right at the top. In the center is an illustr... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A.C. Bunnill, a beekeeper from Madison, and his child. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 04 1934 |
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| Description: | Scorching hive bodies that were infected with American Foul Brood. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin beekeeper Albert Peglow posed standing outdoors among beehives in apiary. |
| Date: | 06 01 1985 |
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| Description: | William Meyer, owner of the Kickapoo Orchard at Gays Mills, adds pollen to beehives to help in pollination. |
| Date: | 10 1969 |
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| Description: | Three men standing in front of a window curtain sampling honey. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | A dead bear in the apiary of W.O. Victor, and the remains of the apiary. There are several rifles next to the bear. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Robert E. Bodoh kneels next to a shipment of pollen. Bodoh, in a protective beekeeper hat, holds a fist-full of pollen in his hand. |
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