These are the lovely genuine (I posit) chemicals that have been behind glass in their little glass phials and such at The Kansas City Museum since the family no one can recall (plaques, unlike plaque, don't stick with me) donated the 1900s soda fountain/drug store to adorn the basement of the Long's Corinthian Hall.
Currently, though in no order I'm making myself privy to, collections staff are removing, cataloging and storing all the stuff that made up exhibits there. A friend showed me a shot of the boxed minstrel puppet, quiet for now and detached from the "press here" that kept him a' janglin' all these years, and I would like to know if he has access to the cyanide, bromine salts, cocaine and other poisons that I find so charming in antique form.
Obviously, it's because I want good photos and catalogs of what they are! The drugstore museum in Liberty's town square has similar items, which are lit better, but that's not the point.
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wow.... a bunch of us would sure like to see the minstrel....
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