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A.C. Miller's Bee Veil

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Description: Beekeeper Arthur Charles Miller's bee veil rolled up in someone's hand.
Postcard

Bee Farmer in Field

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Description: A cyanotype postcard of a bee farmer working in his field.
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Bee Inspector

Date: 1934
Description: The state bee inspector (probably the man on the left), and a Dane County farmer.
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Women at Sewing Bee

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Description: Seven women gathered at a sewing bee.
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Madison Spelling Bee Officials

Date: 03 25 1954
Description: Madison Spelling Bee Officials prepare for the up-coming spelling bee. They are, from left to right, Francis Clawson, Rev. Sig G. Sandrock, Nancy Stoufenra...
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 01 14 1954
Description: Nancy Staudenraus, State Journal librarian and assistant Spelling Bee director, looks over 1954 Spelling Bee pamphlets as they come off the press. Ernest P...
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 29 1950
Description: The audience at the Badger Spelling Bee audience, comprised of parents, teachers and students, sitting in an auditorium. The 1950 Badger Spelling Bee was s...
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Man and Boy near Bee Box

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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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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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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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1958 Badger Spelling Bee Championship

Date: 05 1958
Description: Portrait of one of the 1958 Badger Spelling Bee contestants.
Print

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...
Document

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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Family Sitting in 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.
Print

Governor Dreyfus Print "I Eat Bee Poop"

Date: 03 08
Description: Artwork by Steve H--. Silkscreen. Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus quote illustrated "I Eat Bee Poop." "Wisconsin Grade A Fancy" in lower left corner.

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Spelling Bee Championship in Iowa County

Date: 04 01 1961
Description: The last five spellers left in the Iowa county championship spelling bee all look a bit worried as they wait for the final rounds of the bee, held in the D...
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Stone Picking Bee

Date: 06 1987
Description: The Wagner family and friends stage a stone picking bee on their 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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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 01 14 1954
Description: Nancy Staudenraus, "Wisconsin State Journal" librarian and assistant Spelling Bee director, and Ernest P. Green, day foreman of the press room, looking at ...
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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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