Book VIII Print 75: Congress of the Federación Nacional de Trabajadores del Azucar; travelers boarding flight at Havana airport

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Title: Book VIII Print 75: Congress of the Federación Nacional de Trabajadores del Azucar; travelers boarding flight at Havana airport
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 December
Description: Congress of the Federación Nacional de Trabajadores del Azucar [FNTA], representing 234 sugar workers' unions, held in Havana in mid-December 1959. Pictured speaking before the microphones and cameras is the Secretary General of the CTC, David Salvador. Seated beside Fidel Castro is Osvaldo Dorticós on his left and Conrado Becquer, head of the FNTA, on his right. Other frames show an unidentified foreign man and his wife as they board a flight from Havana's airport in the company of the photographer. See also Prints 73, 79, 80, 83, 84, 85, 86; for images of the flight of the unidentified foreigner, see Print 74.
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 634

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