The Foreign Service Journal, March 2017

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | MARCH 2017 71 AFSA NEWS FSJ Digital Archive: ATest Run Department of State contractor Betty Stewart and her cousin, author Merrill King, use the FSJ archive to research the artist Pieter Irwin Brown and diplomat Richard Fyfe Boyce. AFSA/SHAWNDORMAN In Spring 2017, AFSA will launch the digital archive of 99 years of The Foreign Service Journal . This unique archive con- tains a century of diplomatic history as seen through the eyes of those who witnessed and shaped it firsthand. On the pages of the Journal , members of the Foreign Service have captured major world developments and foreign policy debates. AFSA regularly receives requests for particular articles or topics from previous editions of the FSJ . Requests range from spe- cific articles from a certain issue, to all articles by a specific author, to all articles on topics as diverse as PTSD and typewriter use in U.S. embassies. The Journal recently received a request from author Merrill King to locate information on Richard Fyfe Boyce, a consular officer who served in Yokohama from 1933 to 1940, and Pieter Irwin Brown, an artist who was commissioned by Boyce to produce images of the consulate in Japan. Boyce was a Foreign Service officer who served in numer- ous posts from 1920 to 1948 and went on to be a founder of DACOR. AFSA publications staff were pleased to let Mr. King test out the new archive files and we are pleased to report he did find a few useful articles. AFSA publications and communications staff are at work getting the files ready to share and be found online. We hope that the new digital FSJ archive will prove to be an indispensable resource for those conduct- ing primary-source research on U.S. diplomatic history and American foreign policy and for others who simply want to immerse themselves in the rich, lively and deeply consequential experiences of the Foreign Service. n —Dmitry Filipoff, Publications Coordinator