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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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| Description: | Display of honey containers with printed labels on four wooden shelves. On the top shelf are glass jars of honey, and the bottom three shelves have a varie... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of beehives housed in a raised open-sided shed with decorative finials at each end of the roof, scroll-style roof ridge molding, and a painted ... |
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| Description: | Bouquet of seven different honey plants found in California. A guide is written on the bottom of the image: 1. Wild Horehound 2. Wild Buckwheat 3. Hybrid S... |
| Date: | 11 22 1977 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Gilbert Ward waiting for honey customers along Highway 501. Jars of honey are displayed on a blanket on the hood of her car. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Robert E. Bodoh checks on the condition of a hive by opening it using smoke to calm the bees. Bodoh wears a protective hat with mesh veil. Several other hi... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Bookplate from the Cowan Memorial Library presented to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries by the British Beekeepers Association 1928. The illustrati... |
| Date: | 07 11 1977 |
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| Description: | William Tennessen, a West Bend beekeeper, carefully collects some of the 20,000 Italian bees that swarmed over the awning in front of the London Hat Shop, ... |
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| Description: | Apiary in Japan, with light snow on the ground and a man standing on the right near a small building. Experimental apiary on the northeastern part of the m... |
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| Description: | Beekeeper L.A. Smith standing next to hive boxes stacked on top of each other, exposing the frames. There is a swarm of bees on a hive box on the ground. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Jennie Matzke standing on a block to open and inspect the top of a tall beehive. She is wearing a hat with a bee veil, and there are a number of hives arou... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | August Laechelt (La Valle, Wisconsin) and the Minnesota State Honey Queen at the Minnesota State Fair. The Honey Queen is wearing a sash and tiara. Behind ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the American Bee Journal from Chicago, Illinois found in Agricultural Advertising. There is a lined border around the text ... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | John Amos and Wilbur Allio wear protective veils and are standing on either side of a hive of bees. |
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| Description: | Cover of a pamphlet advertising Walter Hagen Honey Center Golf Balls. Titled "Bees Buzz into Big Business." Printed in black, yellow, and white with illust... |
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| Description: | Three men and a boy standing outside a tent with a sign reading "Apiary." Beekeeping supplies, including hives and frames are displayed inside and outside ... |
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| Description: | View across water of beehives on top of a shed in a flood. Writing on photograph: "From Mr. J.D. Shields, Natchez, Mississippi. A picture of part of his Lo... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of Miss Lucille Johnson, a young girl in a white dress with a bow in her hair. She is squatting behind a large bowl of bees, hands ou... |
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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: | G.W. Estes and two young girls, standing in a storeroom. Hive boxes with frames are on the floor. Along the walls are shelves stacked with square boxes of ... |
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