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The late Bert Johnson\u2019s collection of map ties\u2014some 50 of them\u2014has been donated to the Osher Map Library. See their Facebook post<\/a> and Matthew Edney\u2019s tweet<\/a> for photos. Bert died in 2019<\/a>; he was a stalwart of the Washington Map Society<\/a> and friend of this blog, and apparently quite the snappy dresser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The late Bert Johnson\u2019s collection of map ties\u2014some 50 of them\u2014has been donated to the Osher Map Library. See their Facebook post and Matthew Edney\u2019s tweet for photos. Bert died in 2019; he was a… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1580,447],"class_list":["post-1807562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-memorabilia","tag-map-ties","tag-osher","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787136,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/02\/osher-map-library-tv-segment\/","url_meta":{"origin":1807562,"position":0},"title":"Osher Map Library TV Segment","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"27 February 2019","format":"video","excerpt":"\ufeff News Center Maine, the news wing of Portland, Maine NBC affiliate WCSH, has a segment profiling the Osher Map Library.","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1785651,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/05\/peggy-osher-1929-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":1807562,"position":1},"title":"Peggy Osher, 1929-2018","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 May 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Peggy Osher died Tuesday at the age of 88, the Portland Press-Herald reports. 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