Venom is extracted for the manufacture of serum as a highlight of each tour several times a day.
The sender writes:
Here we are enjoying beautiful Miami. We don't meet many snakes like this one fortunately. We are enjoying the shops and streets so much. I hope to go to the new Seaquarium and see the tropical fish before coming home.
(The Miami Seaquarium was founded in 1955.)
This postcard is postmarked in 1956.
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Still in operation today, The Miami Serpentarium was established in 1946 as the first-of-it’s kind premier venom production laboratory in the world.
Shown on the postcard is founder Bill Haast.
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