Book VIII Print 67: Panel of women leaders on television

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Description

Title: Book VIII Print 67: Panel of women leaders on television
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: 1960
Description: Images of a televised panel of women leaders. Photographs center on Vilma Espín, leader of the underground resistance in Oriente after the 1957 assassination of Frank País during the anti-Batista war, wife of Raúl Castro and future founder of the Federación de Mujeres Cubanas, a mass organization introduced in 1961. Hidden outside the frame of the camera is Loló de la Torriente, a longtime feminist and respective journalist active since the 1920s whose name plate appears on the table next to E. Lina Milanés, a gray-haired woman sitting to the immediate right of Vilma Espín. The woman to the left of Vilma Espín remains unidentified. See also Prints 66 and 81.
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 6, folder 626

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