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| Description: | Illustrations of skep hive design. Writing on back of photograph: "Skep hive used by Schiroch 1770. Made of straw usually kept in bee houses during the win... |
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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: | Mr. T.M. Yullick holds onto a branch with a swarm of bees. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of N.E. France of Platteville, Wisconsin, the general manager and treasurer of the National Bee-Keepers Association, in the form of a label for... |
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| Description: | An artists rendition of a man showing a boy bees in a beehive. Caption reads: "'There, sonny! See the yellow pollen on their legs? They are carrying bee-br... |
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| Description: | Window display of honey and bee products. Decorative bee skep, hive boxes, comb honey, candles, two observation hive frames of bees, photographs, and small... |
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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: | A family, man, woman and infant, sitting under a tree in a bee apiary. Behind them are rows of hives. |
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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. |
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| Description: | Display of beekeeping equipment from A.I. Root Company from Medina, Ohio. |
| 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. |
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