Book II Print 35: Rebel bomb shop and Fidel Castro's headquarters

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Title: Book II Print 35: Rebel bomb shop and Fidel Castro's headquarters
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: 1958
Description: Frames 25-28 show Cdte. Luis "El Guajiro" Crespo at his bomb shop (see also Prints 14 and 15.) Frames 17-20: Celia Sanchez. Frames 9-14: This is Fidel Castro's place of work in headquarters hut where he had only desk ever used by Fidel during two-year insurgency. Three framed photos overhead show his son, Fidelito. Frame 16: Orlando Pupo, jefe de escolta. Frames 23-24 show two important adjuncts to headquarters life: supply and equipment bearers. These men are bringing electrical gear used to repair radio gear and fuse homemade bombs. Frames 5-8: one of the items manufactured from electrical supplies brought in by runners is this little cheeseglass-detonator known as "Che's jam jar," either because Che invented it or because it was developed at bomb shop in Che's column. It is an impact-squeeze detonator that will activate a concealed road mine or a large hand-hurled bomb.
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 2, folder 105

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