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Patent line drawings of a wooden bee-hive shown in vertical section with a peaked roof, comb-frames hanging inside a rectangular brood chamber, sliding front door with entrance holes, and detailed corner hardware including angular catches and dovetailed joints.

IMPROVEMENT IN BEE-HIVESAdolphus E. Wenzel · April 16, 1878

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