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| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | The state bee inspector (probably the man on the left), and a Dane County farmer. |
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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. |
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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: | 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: | Photographic collage of various beekeepers in the 1870s. Includes photographs of men, women, and children, with their names printed underneath their portra... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Dr. Charles C. Miller standing among his beehives. |
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| Description: | Portrait of an unknown beekeeper, wearing a beekeeping hat and veil. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Arthur C. Miller holding a slab of comb taken from the walls of a building. |
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| Description: | Waist-up oval portrait of J.E. Cady, of Medford, Minnesota. He is wearing a suit coat, and has a long beard and a moustache. |
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| Description: | L.E. Mercer, of Lenox Iowa, posed with honey-producing equipment. Mercer is wearing a full suit, bow tie, and hat. |
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| Description: | A young boy is crouching and holding a small swarm of bees over what appears to be a nucleus box. Behind him are hive boxes and frames. |
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| Description: | A man and a boy pose standing in apiary surrounded by beehives. The man is holding a smoker. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A young man wearing a veiled hat stands next to hives while holding up a frame with bees on it. He holds a hive tool in his right hand. |
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| Description: | Oval quarter-length portrait of Harry E. Hill, with writing on the back: "To A.C. Miller with treasured memories of years agone. Sincerely H. Hill." |
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| Description: | Dr. K. Bruennich, standing on a step ladder, holding a basket or skep, and with a cigar in his mouth, collecting a swarm of bees from a tree. Germany. |
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| Description: | Two men standing posing outdoors behind beehives. Square honeycomb and full frames are displayed on top of hives. In the background on the right is a build... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of the Wisconsin Honey Queen holding a jar of honey from Johnson Creek, Wisconsin. She is wearing a tiara and a sash reading "Wisconsin Hon... |
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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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