Book IX Print 41: Fidel Castro and Ernest Hemingway; tourists at hotel pool; Palacio Deportivo; sign celebrating nationalization of foreign businesses; military honor guard

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Manuscripts and Archives > Cuban revolution collection (MS 650) > Series I: Andrew St. George Photographs, Films, and Papers > Photographs > Contact Book IX > Book IX Print 41: Fidel Castro and Ernest Hemingway; tourists at hotel pool; Palacio Deportivo; sign celebrating nationalization of foreign businesses; military honor guard

10018740

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Title: Book IX Print 41: Fidel Castro and Ernest Hemingway; tourists at hotel pool; Palacio Deportivo; sign celebrating nationalization of foreign businesses; military honor guard
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 June
Description: Top row of images shows Fidel conversing privately with Ernest Hemingway at the Marina de Barlovento, where Hemingway hosted a fishing tournament in May of 1960. Row two shows a tiny number of tourists gathered poolside at unidentified hotel. Third row of images shows Havana's Palacio Deportivo, now called Ciudad Deportiva, with newly painted sign reading "Cuba Territorio Libre de América" on its roof. Row four shows a stenciled sign along a wall that celebrates the Cuban government's polices of nationalizing oil refineries and railroad facilities. It reads: "Sin Cuota pero sin AMO. Todos al Palacio Domingo 2 PM. Cuba Sí Yanquis No. Ferroviaria de Cuba." Final rows depict a military honor guard rendering homage to an unidentified delegation of foreign officials on the steps of Cuba's Presidential Palace, as shown also in Print 39. See also Prints 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 39, 43 and 44.
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

Item Location

Repository

Manuscripts and Archives

Call Number

MS 650

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    THIS ITEM Book IX Print 41: Fidel Castro and Ernest Hemingway; tourists at hotel pool; Palacio Deportivo; sign celebrating nationalization of foreign businesses; military honor guard

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Box 7, folder 688

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

Identifiers

Orbis Record: 614150
Object ID (OID): 10018740