Book IV Print 76: Fidel Castro and Rufo López Fresquet at National Press Club luncheon

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Title: Book IV Print 76: Fidel Castro and Rufo López Fresquet at National Press Club luncheon
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 April
Description: This print shows Fidel Castro and Cuba's Minister of the Treasury Rufo López Fresquet seated next to one another at the head table during the National Press Club luncheon held in honor of Fidel Castro in Washington, D.C., in April, 1959. Fidel Castro made the trip, together with a large entourage of well over a hundred people, on April 14, 1959, in response to the invitation of Jules Dubois, editor of the Chicago Tribune and then president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Fidel remained in the United States for more than two weeks, eventually touring cities on the eastern seaboard such as Boston, Princeton, New Jersey and New York City. For other images of Fidel Castro's trip to Washington and New York, see Prints 55-78 and Contact Book V; for other images of Fidel Castro at the National Press Club, see Prints 60, 64, 67, 72, 75, and 78.
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 4, folder 322

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