Alex, behind your very good question is an assumption that UMG had a complete and detailed inventory of the contents of the building in the first place. There is no reason to believe that they did. They didn't care enough about their holdings to invest money in protecting them, so why would they have spent money to catalog what they had and where it was? Sure, one guy had a pretty good knowledge of what was there, but that's not the same as a paper or database trail. -- Matt Snyder | The New York Public Library Archivist Special Collections Library Services Center 31-11 Thomson Avenue, Rm. 202, Long Island City, NY 11101 T: 917.229.9582 | matthewsnyder <http://goog_214053846>@nypl.org <[log in to unmask]>