A Mount Washington home slated for
demolition yields a trove of maps, including one from 1592.The acquisition
gives the [Los Angeles
What a feel good story of relevance to genealogists! It’s always nice when you hear of valuable
documents being “rescued” since you never know what might become invaluable to
our research.
And maps have a special place in my heart since they help me
visualize where people lived, especially for periods in time for which there
are no “photographs.”
It just reminds us that it just takes one person to
recognize the possible value of something for it to be “saved” from the trash
heap! Unfortunately, we all know of
valuable items that were consigned to dumpsters and not “saved” and end up
consigned as footnotes in our family research for why we “couldn’t” learn some
key bit of our ancestor’s history.
That said, it’s nice to read about an amazing addition to
the Los Angeles
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...
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...
Do you know of other “saved”
collections of documents, photographs, items that are considered a “treasure”
to researchers?
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