Series: Negatives

Fox holding a hive bottom on which the bees have constructed their honey comb : negative and print

Bees on the comb in which the foundation beeswax was installed in the frame and the bees built on that, which is, of course, necessary for honey production : negative and print

The third negative shows what happens when the bees get into an empty hive body and do their own thing : negative and print

Honey comb supers : negative and print

Shows winter storage units back of the hives : negative and print

Thermocouple borrowed from UW to test temperature reached in hive when burning was going on : negatives and prints

Thermocouple borrowed from UW to test temperature reached in hive when burning was going on : print only

This is the negative of the photo showing Rod Every being attacked by an irate bee keeper. It was posed and done at the time they were taking pictures for the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and Markets Bulletin. Carolyn Every only had the print, and had a negative made for an enlargement : negative and print

Cleanup of large yard in Sauk County. Firegun use

Inspector Meier carrying hive to hole : negative only

Armand digging the hole and beginning to stack : both negatives and prints for 11a-c

These are negatives illustrating the use of the firegun for sterilizing metal equipment in the tank of boiling, lye water. Also, using the firegun to sterilize wooden bottoms from the hives. Inspector Henry Meier : 12a-c: negative only; 12d-e: both negative and print; 12 f-h: negative only

Negative of the quarantine notice issued by Rod Every : negative and print

Showing hive over the fire. It is first painted with kerosene (after having been scraped) and left on fire long enough to scorch and is then clean[ed] to be used again : negative and print

Kleeber yard cleanup in Sauk County. After the hives are sterilized, they are ready for the beekeeper to use again : negatives only

Three negatives of beeswax drying in the sun : both negatives and prints for 16a-c
Note: Carolyn Every's note:
This is quite an unusual picture ... of foundation for the brood frames. Foundation is made commercially by forming pure beeswax into sheets and running through a foundation mill which leaves impressed on the wax the form of the bottom of hone[y]comb. If bees themselves construct comb, two different types of comb, one for worker cells and one for drone cells. Since drones are consumers, not producers, commercial producers wish to diminish the raising of drones.
These in the picture, however, were made by the beekeeper who melted down his own wax and ran it through the forming mill and has them out to dry after cutting them to size for the frame. These are also used in comb honey boxes.
(I love the outhouse in the back)!!
My mother-in-law was a Christian Scientist who thought only about good things. She always said, "No self-respecting bee would go into an outhouse!"

A very pretty apiary in northern Wisconsin (Carolyn Every believes it was Inspector Meier's yard) : both negative and print

The old immovable cement hives built in 1924. 18a: negative only; 18b: both negative and print

This is either a Waukesha County or Jefferson County cleanup of a diseased yard. Some good "burning" pictures, also one of the old truck

Inspector Seth Fox inspecting : negative and print

Inspectors Seth Fox, Don Every hauling and stacking diseased frames to the fire : 20a: both print and negative; 20b-d: negative only

These negatives just show the mess the inspectors find at times-negligent beekeepers who do not do a good job, but often are the ones who get disease which good beekeepers can get if their bees get into the diseased equipment : 21a-e: negative only

There are 5 large negatives here. Showing a fine example of the stacking and burning of diseased honey. Seth Fox is the inspector stacking it on Carolyn Every's 1932 Chevy! It can be dangerous because pails of boiling honey can explode, and Carolyn Every's husband, Rod Every, had face and nose scars of one such happening : 22a, c, d: both negative and print; 22 d and e: negative only

Rod took picture of brother Don Every photographing the frames : negative and print

This is the negative (very small one) of the old truck with the name "Boyd" Waukesha : negative and print

Leonard Otto pictures showing harvest of a honey crop, Chilton, Calumet County, and/or Two Rivers, Manitowoc County, 1937
Note: Otto yard located in: Chilton, Calumet County, and/or Two Rivers, Manitowoc County.

Leonard Otto in his apiary : negative and print

Another view of the apiary : 26a: negative only; 27b: print only

Otto and helper working with the bees and putting on bee escapes : negative and print

Working with the bees, removing supers of honey, etc : negative and print

Loading full supers of honey on honey cart ready to go to the honey house for extracting : negative and print

The load gets heavier and heavier : negative and print

Otto using the special knife to uncap the frames of honey-that is, cut off the wax capping. The wax is valuable and will be processed. The uncapped frames will go into the honey extractor : negative and print

Taking the super of honey into honey house : negative and print

Part of the honey crop-stored in 60-pound cans (at that time it was selling for about 5 cents per pound) : both print and negative

Waukesha County apiary cleanup. Inspector Seth Fox and helpers Bill and Ambrose

Waukesha County yard to be cleaned up. Inspectors starting the job of removing frames from diseased hive bodies. A Big job to do : negatives only

Seth Fox has loaded hives into his truck for hauling to the burning hole : negative and print

Fox unloading

Bill is digging the hole which will be used for burning bees (which were killed last night) and brood combs from infected hives. Dumping in bees and starting to stack : 37a: negative and print

Brood combs from the diseased hives are being stacked for burning by Ambrose and Bill : 38a-b: negative and print

The stack is almost burned down : negative and print

The fire is burning; Bill is using the firegun to sterilize the hive bodies (which have just been scraped with the hive tool). Ambrose is just leaning, again : 40a: negative only; 40b-c: negative and print

Fox with the hive bodies stacked up after they have been sterilized with fire. Ready for the beekeeper to use again : negative only