The following announcement is posted at the request of the New York
State Library.

--Moderator, NYHIST-L

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SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON PAPERS CD EDITION
AVAILABLE FROM NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY
 
Twenty volumes of papers and correspondence of Sir William Johnson have
been released in a revised second edition digital CD format by the New
York State Library.   The papers are part of the collections of the New
York State Library.   
            
Johnson was British Superintendent of Indian Affairs in New York from
1755 through 1774.   He is best remembered for his diplomatic
achievements among the various Native American tribes and as a military
leader during the French and Indian War.   This set of primary documents
dating from 1738 to 1808 provides a fascinating glimpse into the
pre-Revolutionary interactions among the British, French, and Iroquois
empires.  
            
The Sir William Johnson Papers were originally published in 14 volumes
of print, including a general index, from 1921 to 1965.  Valuable for
colonial research, the earliest six volumes have been out-of-print for
years.  The newly released CD is a revised and expanded second edition
of an earlier CD released in 2007.   It includes the complete 14 volume
set along with the “Calendar of the Sir William Johnson manuscripts in
the New York State Library” compiled by Richard E. Day in 1909.  The
CD also features several enhancements, including:  more than 100 newly
digitized illustrations from the New York State Library collections;
dozens of new color digital photographs of locations and scenes from the
Mohawk Valley and Lake George appropriate to Johnson’s legacy,
including Johnson Hall and Fort Johnson; improved accuracy of scans to
nearly 98%;  electronic indexing allowing simultaneous searching of the
entire collection; and bibliographic consistency in volume and page
numbering with printed volumes.
 
The CD is available from the New York State Library for $20.  To
purchase a copy, contact Aimee Pelton in Documents and Digital
Collections via phone at (518) 474-7492 or email at
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