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Watsonville is in the Heart: Community Digital Archive

Red Handheld Lantern

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Title

Red Handheld Lantern

Description

A red, handheld lantern that was owned and used by Paul "Skippy" Tabalan DeOcampo. Paul's oldest daughter, Veronica Hernandez, remembers her father using this lantern when she worked with him to irrigate fields at night. She recalled Paul standing on one end of a row of crops while she stood on the other. He would use the lantern to signal her when to open and close the irrigation pipes.

Contributor

Antoinette Yvonne DeOcampo-Lechtenberg and Veronica Hernandez

Rights

Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH) is a community-driven public history initiative to preserve and uplift stories of Filipino migration and labor in the city of Watsonville and greater Pajaro Valley. Images were donated and digitally reproduced from private collections of individuals and families. Copyright remains with original owners. All images included herein are intended for personal or educational use only. Any reproduction, redistribution, publication, or other use, by any means, without prior written permission is prohibited. Please note that the images on this website are not included at their full resolution. For permission to publish or reproduce and for higher resolution files, please contact the project director at wiith@ucsc.edu. If you are the rightful copyright holder of this item and its use online constitutes an infringement of your copyright, please contact the project director to discuss its removal from the archive.

Format

13 inches

Type

Physical Object

Identifier

DEO.2021.9

Physical Object Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Lantern

Files

DEO.2021.9.JPG
DEO.2021.9(3).JPG

Citation

“Red Handheld Lantern,” Watsonville is in the Heart: Community Digital Archive, accessed November 8, 2024, https://wiith-archive.ucsc.edu/items/show/45.

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