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Title: A California bee ranch: hunting wild bees and bee culture
Creator: Harper's Weekly (active ca. 1881), American, publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: [1881]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Multiple views of bee ranching activities, from locating hives in wild to cultivating bees in apiaries. An apiary in Santa Rosa, California is shown.
Printed title (LC). Each image is captioned. From Harper's Weekly.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving, hand colored 38 x 27.3 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf82901285
BANC PIC 1963.002:0663--B
Subject: Agriculture
California, Northern
Ranches

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