Well, hey, thanks so much for coming into collections behind that, behind the vault door.

We pulled out a couple of items for you to look at.

It's just a variety, certainly not all of what we have in the Frazier collection.

But you said variety to showcase some local history, some Kentucky history.

And so a couple of the pieces.

There was a professional wrestler that was from Louisville, Kentucky, and his name was Jim Mitchell.

And this is Jim Mitchell.

This was actually a toy that was produced of him as a wrestler.

And then we have a pair of his actually wrestling boots.

So we box everything with archival boxes and archival tissue.

And as we pull them.

Out, Oh, wow, this is what one of his.

Or that he wore when he wrestled.

So this would have been part of his uniform.

And, you know, they're simple.

It's it's a soft soul, thin soul.

And so this is what he would have thought.

This is like literally, I want the Jim Mitchell toy.

Yeah.

This is early marketing.

1930s.

Mom can I get that Jim Mitchell toy?

I want to be a wrestler kind of idea.

That's cool.

You know the Michael Jordan of wrestling type thing, right?

The new shoes.

And so the other pieces that we have is we have a sign from Fontaine Fairy.

So Fontaine Fairy was a very popular amusement park here in Louisville, Kentucky, located in the West End.

I know I have family members that still talk about going to Fontaine Fairy.

It had rides.

It had, you know, games, you know, food, you know, things like that for kids to do.

And this Fontaine fairies also very important in Louisville history because there's a lot of racial tension that was surrounded.

FONTAINE Very.

So it's important to have pieces like this to be able to tell the history where people have the nostalgia.

But it's also important to have these pieces to tell the the other difficult issues that our city.

Our city faced for a period of time.

Black people couldn't do it.

Yes.

Yeah, absolutely.

There was I think actually the for the entire time, you know, African-Americans couldn't attend.

FONTAINE Very.

And it being in the West End, it was surrounded by a lot of it was in those neighborhoods.

So there was some protests that happened at Fontaine Fairy so some fun but then also some an uneasy time out a lot.

Mm hmm.

Another piece that we have is this Fresca bottle right here.

It looks.

Delicious.

Yeah, which I thought you said.

And so this is actually from Paducah, Kentucky, from 1966.

And it is the first bottle bottled at that bottling plant.

Oh, wow.

So they saved the first one.

I guess it's like the the dollar bill that you have from your first sale.

So this would have been the very first bottle at that plant.

And so this is important for us here because we tell Kentucky history.

So having it from food, you got an area of Kentucky, we're able to tell this story.

And then it's evaporated.

Right?

Yeah, it has.

Rare type, but.

Yeah, over time it has.

There's very little liquid left and it has not been open interest yet, but it's probably in this time a little bit.

Yeah.

Yikes.

This piece right here is what's scary.

Yes.

And this is actually a doll, a hand-carved wooden doll and stuffed with straw from the 1920s.

What we know about this doll, it was actually made and used in Appalachia, Kentucky.

And so this doll was likely made for a child, handmade maybe by a relative, so that they had something to play with it.

So it's unique with that story, but it's unique even more so because this doll was originally in the collection of what we know as the Science Center.

And then the Science Center used to be a natural history museum.

Amazing.

The curiosity.

And in the 1930s it was not located where it is now.

I believe it was over a mortuary and it was part of the 1937 flood and so it's installed.

And so in prior to the 19 1937, the hair was actually made out of sheet school.

And after 1947, the the hair got ruined and they removed it and they used this is actually human hair.

It was a human hair wig that they placed on this doll is talks about history on many levels.

So we can talk about Appalachia, Kentucky, but we can talk about.

The one place.

Right?

One object.

Yeah, that's pretty cool.

And not the only object that we have that's made with human hair.

Now.

No, there is a hair wreath upstairs that's made of of with human hair.

The last piece also is a little disturbing, I guess is a good way to put it.

This is actually a surgical tool kit from the Civil War.

And so what's what's great about the piece is we know the doctor who used this, this is Washington Saunders.

He used this piece.

He went by the name of Wash, and he was not enlisted in the Army at all, but was forced into service by the Confederate Army and served on the battlefield to help the wounded, both union and Confederate.

In his later years, he survived the war and he went on to continue to practice until the age of 19.

And so he would get on horseback and go house to house.

Don't know if he took this with him because hopefully he didn't have to use this in his home.

But you can take it out, will take that.

Physically.

Someone coming with.

That?

Yeah.

This is obviously the very that was used.

I know this is it's terrible to think about.

Right.

And you know and the.

Cause they would literally have to.

Amputated.

Yeah they would have to do all of the surgery in the field and this is what they would have taken and used it is it's incredible to think about, you know, this small kid was trying to save the lives of people on the fields.

But again, this piece is great because now we can we can tell his story.

You know, his he probably didn't realize that his legacy would have lived on.

And the tools you use every day just doing his job.

And so that's what makes this piece really useful and really all the pieces, because our job is to tell stories and our job is to help preserve the legacy of the people of Kentucky.

And so that's what we do every day.