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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland and the Wisconsin Honey Queen at a Wisconsin Beekeepers display. |
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| Description: | Beehives in the woods. They appear to be covered with wrapping for cold weather. There is a wire fence in the foreground. |
| Date: | 04 1934 |
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| Description: | Scorching hive bodies that were infected with American Foul Brood. |
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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: | Rooftop apiary, with two men sitting in the background. There are chimneys along the roofline on the right. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin beekeeper Albert Peglow posed standing outdoors among beehives in apiary. |
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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: | 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." |
| 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. |
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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... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Entries in the Lewis Baking Contest. Seven tables full of plates of desserts are displayed in a large room. |
| Date: | 10 1969 |
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| Description: | Three men standing in front of a window curtain sampling honey. |
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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. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Walworth Fairest of the Fair, Governor Knowles and the Wisconsin Honey Queen all holding a bottle of honey at the Walworth County Fair. |
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| Description: | View down hill of town in a valley. There is open land, homes, barns and a bee farm. |
| 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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| Description: | Advertisement for the Italian Bee Company. Dealers in Queens, Bees, Hives, Honey Extractors, &c. "Queens Imported by every Steamer." Des Moines, Iowa. From... |
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