Hive Collection

Elephant Castle Beehive
A unique elephant castle beehive at Beeston, Cheshire, England. Date: 1960s

Poster card for a Beekeepers Conference - Prague
Promotional card for a Beekeepers Conference - Prague, Czechoslovakia

Beekeeping / Diderot
Various procedures of apiculture

Brer Rabbit

Bermuda - Hamilton - Street Scene
A hive of activity on a main street in Hamilton, Bermuda

An apiary, Mandeville, Jamaica, apiary early 1900s Date: early 1900s

A bee keeper, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Bee Keeper Victorian period

TELLING THE BEES - bees must be told when there is a death in the household, if you don't, the bees will either leave or die in the hive Date: 1879

Putting bee-hives into mourning 1856
Telling the bees, traditional European custom in which bees would be told of an important event in the beekeepers life, such as long journeys, births, marriages and deaths

Bees, mainly for the beginner, 1941
Bees, mainly for the beginner, by Apis, 1941. Beekeeping advice. Date: 1941

Silhouette, Girl and Beehive. 1926

And golden honey from the hive, by Minnie Asprey. circa 1918

Western honey bee, Apis mellifera, and hive
Western honey bee or European honey bee, Apis mellifera (Apis mellifica). Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History

Beehive, icehouse and mortar mill
Bee hive and ice house, mortar mill, and artists guide to drapery and horse. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts

Lessons in elementary science at Whitechapel
Miss Kate M. Hall, the curator of the Whitechapel Free Library and Museum, giving a demonstration of working bees to Board School children with the aid of a observatory hive, invented and made by Mr

Poster, Eat More Honey. Date: 20th century

Design for a Bee House. 1857

Edward Pink & Sons - Jugs, Cups, Saucers, etc
Edward Pink & Sons - range of jugs, cups, saucers, etc, with prices. 1888

Curtis British Entomology Plate 769
Hymenoptera: Apis mellifica = Apis mellifera (Common Hive Bee, Honey Bee) Date: 1824-39

Repeating Pattern - Beehives. *PLEASE NOTE that the magifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Gay Young Man C18
A romantic young man contemplates : " Who can paint like Nature ? Can Imagination boast, amidst his gay Creation, hues like these ?" Date: 1795

Animals and Their Homes

Beekeeping 1960S
A beekeeper wearing protective gloves, jacket, hat and veil removes the Queen Excluder grid from the Brood Box

Cartoon, Broad Bottom Drones storming the Hive, Wasps, Hornets & Bumble Bees joining in the Attack, by James Gillray. Showing leading politicians (both those in power and those in opposition)

Straw Bee Hives, 1733
Straw bee hives outside the Colonel John Ashley House, dating from 1733, Massachusetts

A hive of wasps Source: The zoological miscellany: being descriptions of new or interesting animals by Leach, William Elford, 1790-1836. Published by Nodder, Richard P. illustrator, engraver. E

Navy Office Broad St
At a time when Britannia could fairly claim to rule the waves, the Navy Office in Broad Street was a hive of activity, though theres no sign of it in this print. Date: 1750

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA - Gardo House, Eagle Gate and the Lion and Bee Hive Houses Date: circa 1901

Christmas card in the shape of a honey pot decorated with a beehive and pink flowers. Date: circa 1890s

The front cover of The Bee Hive, August 1941, 16, (8). Date: 1941

The front cover of The Bee Hive volume IX
The front cover of The Bee Hive, volume IX, Number 1, January 1935, published by the United Aircraft Corporation for the employees of its subsidiaries. Date: 1935

Edward Baruch Blaker, beekeeper, 1911 (1) Date: 1911

The Bee Hive House, Salt Lake City

Beekeeping
Hans Hermigk, About Beekeeping, Denmark. 1649. Date: 1649

Beehive and Bees
Bees buzzing round a hive. Date: 1817

Diderot Hives
Various hives and other apicultural appliances Date: circa 1760

Various Insects
Butterflies and other insects, also a man-made beehive. Date: circa 1880

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, Industry
Industry. A hard working man sits busily stitching fabrics and casts a shadow of a bee hive. Illustration from a series of shadow portraits of fictional characters by Charles H Bennett entitled

Bees swarming in a walled garden
Bees leave their hive and form a large swarm on the branch of a tree. Two agricultural types look on in amazement

The Bear and the Bees
THE BEAR AND THE BEES The bear is stung by a bee and in retaliation overturns the hive whereupon hundreds of bees attack and sting him

Lady Makes Bed
A housewife with an elegent hairstyle makes the bed

Great Exhibition / Cartoon
The Opening of the Great Hive of the World May 1 1851 (or The Industrial Exhibition of All Nations ). Cruikshanks impression of the scale of the Hyde Park opening ceremony

Beehive Scene 1902
Humanised bees in a hive

Domestic Order
Papa returns home from his office to find his home a hive of activity, most of it noisy

Beehive on a Gatepost
A bee keeper in a suit smokes straggling bees back into their hive with the aid of a pair of small smoking bellows

Driving the Bees
DRIVING THE BEES from the old hive to the new; illustration to The Pleasure and Profits of Bee-Driving

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