Book II Print 14: Rebel command posts on the approaches to La Plata

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Description

Title: Book II Print 14: Rebel command posts on the approaches to La Plata
Creator: From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Contributor: From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
From the Collection: Stone, David C.
Published / Created: undated
Description: Glimpses of two rebel command posts - small, temporary ones - on the approaches to La Plata, Fidel Castro's headquarters. Frames 4-12 show the station (and bomb shop) of Cdte. Luis "El Guajiro" Crespo at Naranjo. Cdte. Crespo is shown on frame 4 et seq. giving therapeutic massage to a small crippled child whom he had adopted as a mascot. Frames 11-12 show crew of Crespo's station: Crespo is sitting front center and next to him (right, beard) is El Gallego Maestro, as this truly masterful dinamitero was known. Frame 15-17: Capt. Mario Hidalgo, chief of the other small rebel post shown.here.
Provenance: Purchased from Andrew St. George in 1969 and from David C. Stone in 1970. Gift of Adolfas Mekas, 2010. Transferred from the Latin American Collection Curator, 2016.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English
Spanish

Repository

Manuscripts and Archives

Call Number

MS 650

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Container / Volume

Box 1, folder 84

Access: Public
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Citation: Cuban Revolution Collection (MS 650). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.