Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
92.16.001
Accession#:
92.16
Credit Line:
Donated by Floyd Guertin.
Object Name:
Lantern
Title:
Miner's Lantern
Date:
1900
Description:
Miner's lantern. Oil pot with handle is tin painted forest green; decorative edge; cotton wick inside gold—painted tin burner.
Inscription: "EAGLE"
Notes:
Donor appointed Commissioner of Admin. by Gov. Egan in 1959. Served 2 terms until 1966. The lamp was given to donor by Judge Simon Hellenthal, at one time attorney for Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. Mine. He found it in his attic in the 1950's. His house is next door to Judge Stewart's on Calhoun.
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