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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Bee hives near the Bennett cranberry marshes. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Bee skep turned over to show bees and combs inside. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | The state bee inspector (probably the man on the left), and a Dane County farmer. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 08 28 1908 |
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| Description: | 8-year-old Verna Hohman holding a tree branch with a swarm of bees. Caption reads: "'My First Catch' A Swarm of Bees." Sent to the American Bee Journal<... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Nadji Olson of Warrens, Wisconsin, the 1970 Wisconsin Honey Queen. |
| 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: | 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: | 01 1936 |
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| Description: | A photograph of a book page with illustration of American Foul Brood at various stages. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 10 16 1950 |
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| Description: | Judy Russell is pointing to the queen bee in the colony at the Marquette School sixth grade classroom; she's discovered that all activity centers about the... |
| Date: | 12 10 1910 |
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| Description: | A man displays a stick that has bees and honeycomb hanging from it. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Dr. Charles C. Miller standing among his beehives. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Music and lyrics to "Buckwheat Cakes and Honey." Portraits of Eugene Secor and George W. Work are at left and right at the top. In the center is an illustr... |
| Date: | 01 06 1909 |
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| Description: | A man and woman sit in a field near a large stand of beehives. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Stacy Apiaries with beehives in the foreground and a house and people in the background. |
| 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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