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| Description: | Dr. Charles C. Miller transferring bees from stump to wire container. |
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| Description: | A cyanotype postcard of a bee farmer working in his field. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Apiary of August Diehnelt with a large group of people. Mr Diehnelt is just above the arrow. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Jennie Matzke holds up a slate of honey comb covered in bees, while sitting next to numerous beehives. |
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| Description: | Two men hold onto a piece of grating and a stick on which bees have nested and made honeycomb. |
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| Description: | Bee house on wheels. A rectangular structure with a roof and openings along the side, sitting among trees. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Three of the wives of the Rusk County Beekeepers Association. From left to right they are the wives of Robert Knudtson, Leslie Yancey, and A.D. Calkins. |
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| Description: | A well-dressed man stands in the middle of several beehives holding a flat box of honey comb covered with bees. |
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| Description: | A woman removes a swarm of bees from the bumper and tail pipe of a car. |
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| Description: | Insect art work in which the artist placed cut-outs of people's faces on top of the insect heads. |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland and the Wisconsin Honey Queen at a Wisconsin Beekeepers display. |
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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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| 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. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Stuart Fargo sitting on a disk pulled by a team of four horses on the F.B. Fargo farm. |
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| Description: | View down hill of a large apiary in an open area among bushes, grass, and trees. Caption reads "Apiary of Kiryath-Anarim near Jerusalem, hills of Judea." |
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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: | Old time hive display at Honey Acres. Hives from left to right: skep, chaf hive, two colony hive, 1890 hive, and modern hive. |
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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. |
| 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. |
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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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