Red Handheld Lantern

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.

Antoinette Yvonne DeOcampo-Lechtenberg and Veronica Hernandez

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13 inches

Physical Object

DEO.2021.9

Lantern