John Feathers dies leaving over 1 million maps that almost got destroyed.

Has anyone heard of Feathers?

I want to see more pictures ...

Angie


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.

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