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Re: Archives Fires (& Floods)
Moves are a very good explanation for missing material. We will be moving
twice in the next 4 years, and I plan to lose a lot of stuff.
Nancy Boothe
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Beth S. Harris wrote:
> We had a big flood back in '85 and we've used that excuse for many years
> --Gee, that must have been lost in THE FLOOD. At some point, however,
> we'll have to come up with something else. Since we moved into a new
> building last year, maybe we can use that as our next excuse!!
>
> I've always held that every archives needs an occasional fire now and then
> to provide some plausible deniability for records someone doesn't wish to
> release to the public or that the records center just plain can't find.
> Something like: "Oh, those records were probably destroyed in "the great
> fire of 2000"". Anyone who has investigated the GI A-Bomb veterans, for
> example, knows what I'm talking about. It isn't necessary that a lot of
> records are destroyed, just enough so that anything missing or troublesome
> that arises after that date can be said to have "probably been destroyed in
> the fire".
>
>
>
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