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Subject:        L.A. Public Library inherits treasure of maps
Date:   Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:33:49 +0000
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Article in today’s Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-map-house-20121019,0,2619000.story

L.A. Public Library inherits treasure of maps

By Bob Pool, Los Angeles Times

October 19, 2012

The discovery that real estate agent Matthew Greenberg made when he
stepped inside a Mount Washington cottage will put the Los Angeles
Public Library on the map.

Stashed everywhere in the 948-square-foot tear-down were maps. Tens of
thousands of maps. Fold-out street maps were stuffed in file cabinets,
crammed into cardboard boxes, lined up on closet shelves and jammed into
old dairy crates. Wall-size roll-up maps once familiar to schoolchildren
were stacked in corners. Old globes were lined in rows atop bookshelves
also filled with maps and atlases.

[more]…

Louise Ratliff

Social Sciences and Map Catalog Librarian

UCLA Cataloging & Metadata Center

11020 Kinross Ave.  Box 957230

Los Angeles, CA 90095-7230

(310)206-5853