Book III Print 17: Rebel takeover of military barracks

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Description

Title: Book III Print 17: Rebel takeover of military barracks
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: 1959 January
Description: This print features various scenes from the rebel takeover of a military barracks or cuartel, probably in Oriente province. Frames 8-17 show a white-robed priest wearing a large cross around his neck talking before a large tank, with the military installation in the back. Prints 5-7 show a small boy-turned-guerrilla who guards recently acquired munitions from the cuartel with a rifle across his lap. The guerrillas incorporated a number of children in the last months before the triumph, especially as Batista's bombing raids left many peasant families homeless and children orphaned. Frames 19-22 show a man behind bars although it is not clear if he is a political prisoner about to be freed or an official that the rebels have jailed. See also Print 45.
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: Multiple languages

Repository

Manuscripts and Archives

Call Number

MS 650

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Container / Volume

Box 2, folder 142

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