Description
Container list
Box 27-B
Personal Collection
Atkison, Leonard and Corene
LL 003.080.1: new evening purse/compact ["gold tone" metal in a "woven pattern with lipstick
attached, metal strap; 3" x 4.5" x1"; from Desertwear, c. 19405-50s]
LL 003.080.2: Desert Sands pottery vase [gray, white, brown, blue swirl pattern, unglazed; "Evans
Pottery" mark off-center on the bottom; 6" tall x 3.25" diameter, c. 1940s (Leonard
Atkison kept his brushes and other implements he used in sign-making in this vase)]
M 003.080.3a-b: World War II M-1 carbine rifle [canvas strap with loaded clip; "EAF" carved
in the wooden butt (this gun and clip were gifts to Leonard Atkison from Capt. LeRoy Kutscher, who brought them--illegally--from Germany at the end of World War II)] 2010 note: at Museum, clip missing
M 003.080.5
Leonard Atkison's "Hardboiled" hard hat worn when he worked on construction of
Hoover Dam, c. 1932-35 [includes metal pin, "Hard Boiled Safety Club/Bullard,"
with an image of a safety hat (green lettering on white) 11" x 9" x 5"] 2010 note; at Museum
LL 003.080.7: Leonard Atkison's Babcock & Wilcox Company employee badge, c. 1934-35 [1.5" x
1.5"; metal with red lettering]
003.080.8: Standard Masonic Monitor ... , by George E. Simons [New York, NY: Macoy
Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, 1931 (inscribed to Leonard Atkison:
"Presented by Boulder City Lodge #37 F. & A. M. April 3, 1936," and signed by H.
0. Watts)]
LL 003.080.10: tin lock box [black and gold; 3.75" x 5" x 10.5" (used at the Nava-Hopi and
Desertwear shops, 1930s-60s; box, c. late 19th, early 20th century)