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Patent drawing of a house-shaped wooden beehive with a peaked roof, showing a cutaway transverse section revealing internal drawers, sliding gates, and chambers, alongside an end elevation view with decorative bracket-shaped legs.

BEEHIVERobert Martin · May 19, 1840

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