Bee keeping chart showing numbered hive types and bees – Vintage Print
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Bee keeping chart showing numbered hive types and bees comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Bee keeping chart showing numbered hive types and bees
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A numbered chart of hive types and bees, as the title describes it, sets out the forms beekeepers used to house colonies. Charts like this were common in agricultural teaching and trade literature from the late 1800s into the early 1900s, when movable-frame hives were spreading and keepers needed clear ways to compare designs. Each number would have pointed to a particular hive form, and the bees drawn alongside often showed the insects' parts or the workers and queen, giving a farmer or student a quick visual reference. Worth noticing is how such charts blend natural history with practical instruction, reflecting a period when beekeeping was being reshaped by new equipment.
| Original scan | 3,994 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 8e04633u Page from The Growth of |
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