Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa
@benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
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Obligatory book promotion post for the new platform. Check out my @ucpress.bsky.social book THE CELLULOID SPECIMEN: MOVING IMAGE RESEARCH INTO ANIMAL LIFE for free here:
www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...
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Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.
In the spirit of the season, I want to offer my fellow historians and other scholars the gift of an amazing, largely untapped archive.
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
December 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.
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Chawton has STACKS of notebooks from a single family’s literary output, including manuscript newsletters that include who received it and where and when.
Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.
In the spirit of the season, I want to offer my fellow historians and other scholars the gift of an amazing, largely untapped archive.
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
December 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Chawton has STACKS of notebooks from a single family’s literary output, including manuscript newsletters that include who received it and where and when.
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This thread makes me want to do research.
Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.
In the spirit of the season, I want to offer my fellow historians and other scholars the gift of an amazing, largely untapped archive.
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
December 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This thread makes me want to do research.
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FUCK SMILLER: watch Sinatra attack bigots & stand up for immigrants in Albert Maltz's #TheHouseILiveIn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhPw....
Sinatra was not just a son of immigrants, but STOOD UP for others. And Frank *hated* men like SM & would've called him "one of these Nazi werewolves." 🗃️
Sinatra was not just a son of immigrants, but STOOD UP for others. And Frank *hated* men like SM & would've called him "one of these Nazi werewolves." 🗃️
December 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
FUCK SMILLER: watch Sinatra attack bigots & stand up for immigrants in Albert Maltz's #TheHouseILiveIn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhPw....
Sinatra was not just a son of immigrants, but STOOD UP for others. And Frank *hated* men like SM & would've called him "one of these Nazi werewolves." 🗃️
Sinatra was not just a son of immigrants, but STOOD UP for others. And Frank *hated* men like SM & would've called him "one of these Nazi werewolves." 🗃️
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the British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent, home to an amazing wealth of British political cartoons (yes it’s in my diss lol)
www.kent.ac.uk/library/spec...
www.kent.ac.uk/library/spec...
December 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
the British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent, home to an amazing wealth of British political cartoons (yes it’s in my diss lol)
www.kent.ac.uk/library/spec...
www.kent.ac.uk/library/spec...
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I was a PA on Cape Fear and me and another PA were discussing John Boorman with Marty one day on set and we told him we had never seen Point Blank. He was aghast! Three days later, he handed us a VHS of it from his UCLA archive as homework.
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I was a PA on Cape Fear and me and another PA were discussing John Boorman with Marty one day on set and we told him we had never seen Point Blank. He was aghast! Three days later, he handed us a VHS of it from his UCLA archive as homework.
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Oral histories of live-in site guardians of heritage sites across Britain. The last generation of people who either lived in heritage sites or grew up in them is in their 50s-60s now.
Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.
In the spirit of the season, I want to offer my fellow historians and other scholars the gift of an amazing, largely untapped archive.
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
December 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Oral histories of live-in site guardians of heritage sites across Britain. The last generation of people who either lived in heritage sites or grew up in them is in their 50s-60s now.
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The Jones Film & Video Collection at SMU has an eclectic and deep audiovisual archive that taps into US Hollywood and independent film, Texas-based film artists and entrepreneurs, and an outstanding collection of 1950s-70s Dallas local TV news film.
www.smu.edu/libraries/lo...
www.smu.edu/libraries/lo...
December 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The Jones Film & Video Collection at SMU has an eclectic and deep audiovisual archive that taps into US Hollywood and independent film, Texas-based film artists and entrepreneurs, and an outstanding collection of 1950s-70s Dallas local TV news film.
www.smu.edu/libraries/lo...
www.smu.edu/libraries/lo...
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We donated my grandfather’s papers to Temple U & I hope scholars of Philly or music history someday use his papers in their research #skystorians 🗃️
librarysearch.temple.edu/catalog/9910...
librarysearch.temple.edu/catalog/9910...
December 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
We donated my grandfather’s papers to Temple U & I hope scholars of Philly or music history someday use his papers in their research #skystorians 🗃️
librarysearch.temple.edu/catalog/9910...
librarysearch.temple.edu/catalog/9910...
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Another great collection is The Hockey Museum (for field hockey 🏑) hockeymuseum.org/what-we-do/c... My PhD student @emmyailish.bsky.social is working on a history of women’s field hockey clothing but there is so much research for #sporthistory & British history & more held there #skystorians 🗃️
December 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Another great collection is The Hockey Museum (for field hockey 🏑) hockeymuseum.org/what-we-do/c... My PhD student @emmyailish.bsky.social is working on a history of women’s field hockey clothing but there is so much research for #sporthistory & British history & more held there #skystorians 🗃️
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The amazing @dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social has the Ski Club of Great Britain collection which is so rich in #sporthistory & so much more! Check out the very detailed finding aid:
specialcollections.catalogue.dmu.ac.uk/records/S/006
#skystorians 🗃️
specialcollections.catalogue.dmu.ac.uk/records/S/006
#skystorians 🗃️
December 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The amazing @dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social has the Ski Club of Great Britain collection which is so rich in #sporthistory & so much more! Check out the very detailed finding aid:
specialcollections.catalogue.dmu.ac.uk/records/S/006
#skystorians 🗃️
specialcollections.catalogue.dmu.ac.uk/records/S/006
#skystorians 🗃️
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At Michigan we have the Screen Arts Mavericks and Makers collection with incredible stuff that hasn’t been seen or written about yet, including the papers of Orson Welles, Robert Altman, Jonathan Demme, Robert Shaye, Nancy Savoca, and Ira Deutchman. We just acquired Lawrence Kasdan’s papers!
December 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
At Michigan we have the Screen Arts Mavericks and Makers collection with incredible stuff that hasn’t been seen or written about yet, including the papers of Orson Welles, Robert Altman, Jonathan Demme, Robert Shaye, Nancy Savoca, and Ira Deutchman. We just acquired Lawrence Kasdan’s papers!
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The Julia Morgan collection at CalPoly SLO will always be my favorite. Trailblazing woman at such an interesting time in California history with some fascinating clients and mentors. Big collection of Hearst Castle material as well.
Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.
In the spirit of the season, I want to offer my fellow historians and other scholars the gift of an amazing, largely untapped archive.
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
December 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The Julia Morgan collection at CalPoly SLO will always be my favorite. Trailblazing woman at such an interesting time in California history with some fascinating clients and mentors. Big collection of Hearst Castle material as well.
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Amazing reads. Days of weather and positions with an occasional murder or contact with a famous ship, crewmen slowly losing their minds. And if they were lucky, whales.
December 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Amazing reads. Days of weather and positions with an occasional murder or contact with a famous ship, crewmen slowly losing their minds. And if they were lucky, whales.
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I've been plumbing the collections of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit with dozens of duplication requests. The ADL archives are in process of digitization and should be done in 2027 and the Avedis Derounian archive at the National Association for American Studies and Research in 2026.
Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.
In the spirit of the season, I want to offer my fellow historians and other scholars the gift of an amazing, largely untapped archive.
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
December 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I've been plumbing the collections of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit with dozens of duplication requests. The ADL archives are in process of digitization and should be done in 2027 and the Avedis Derounian archive at the National Association for American Studies and Research in 2026.
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Wisconsin Historical Society has the International Harvester archives.
Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.
In the spirit of the season, I want to offer my fellow historians and other scholars the gift of an amazing, largely untapped archive.
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
December 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Wisconsin Historical Society has the International Harvester archives.
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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
December 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
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I am in the process (the extended and multi month and possibly multi year process) of sorting through my FiL’s papers for [redacted relevant archive] and it’s going to be a goldmine for someone someday
Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.
In the spirit of the season, I want to offer my fellow historians and other scholars the gift of an amazing, largely untapped archive.
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
December 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I am in the process (the extended and multi month and possibly multi year process) of sorting through my FiL’s papers for [redacted relevant archive] and it’s going to be a goldmine for someone someday
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The Danny Casolaro files: ddosecrets.com/article/caso...
December 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The Danny Casolaro files: ddosecrets.com/article/caso...
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Communist International Archives: 326 reels of correspondence btw Communist Party and their Kremlin overlords (1919-1943).
Yes Alger Hiss was a spy.
Yes the early Communist Party wanted to destroy the American Socialist Party and take the trade unions out of their grips to help Moscow.
Yes Alger Hiss was a spy.
Yes the early Communist Party wanted to destroy the American Socialist Party and take the trade unions out of their grips to help Moscow.
Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.
In the spirit of the season, I want to offer my fellow historians and other scholars the gift of an amazing, largely untapped archive.
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
December 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Communist International Archives: 326 reels of correspondence btw Communist Party and their Kremlin overlords (1919-1943).
Yes Alger Hiss was a spy.
Yes the early Communist Party wanted to destroy the American Socialist Party and take the trade unions out of their grips to help Moscow.
Yes Alger Hiss was a spy.
Yes the early Communist Party wanted to destroy the American Socialist Party and take the trade unions out of their grips to help Moscow.
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Two nominations from me. The Charlie White Americanism collection at Portland State University and the Mark Hatfield Papers (2000 boxes, just opened to the public ~2 years ago) at Willamette University in Salem.
Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.
In the spirit of the season, I want to offer my fellow historians and other scholars the gift of an amazing, largely untapped archive.
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
December 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Two nominations from me. The Charlie White Americanism collection at Portland State University and the Mark Hatfield Papers (2000 boxes, just opened to the public ~2 years ago) at Willamette University in Salem.
Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.
In the spirit of the season, I want to offer my fellow historians and other scholars the gift of an amazing, largely untapped archive.
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
December 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.
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On the other hand, there is the King in Yellow:
December 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
On the other hand, there is the King in Yellow:
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CFP for special issue of @sttcljournal.bsky.social for work from early career scholars, which will receive particular editorial attention.
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Call for Papers: STTCL Volume 51.1 Special focus on early career scholars | H-Net
The editors of STTCL invite submissions of articles of 6,000-8,000 words in English from early-career scholars (graduate students and recent PhD graduates within three years of completing the PhD) in ...
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December 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
CFP for special issue of @sttcljournal.bsky.social for work from early career scholars, which will receive particular editorial attention.
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...