From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 Mar, 1960 February
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 604
Image Count:
1
Description:
Landing of two unidentified helicopters at the landing platform directly across from El Morro fortress at the entrance to the Bay of Havana. One of the helicopters carries an unidentified foreigner with light-colored hair, also featured in frame 24 of Print 35, who is seen being greeted by a gathering crowd of Cubans. Bottom frames of the print show street scenes of carnival dancers, taken in February of 1960, on El Prado in downtown Havana. See also Print 35; for images of 1960 Carnival, see Book VII.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 605
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of crowds gathered near the corner of San Rafael Boulevard and El Prado around two signs, one posted by the Partido Socialista Popular and the other apparently anonymous, both urging support for the Revolution.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 Nov, 1960 March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 607
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames document a student rally on the Escalinata (entrance steps) of the University of Havana. Probably taken in November of 1959 when the university was undergoing the first phase of revolutionary reforms that would initially purge all professors with a history of batistiano allegiance from the campus and eventually end the autonomy of the university from state intervention by the fall of the following year. Fidel Castro was the featured speaker. Bottom frames show visiting French intellectuals Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre as they greet Cubans poolside at the Hotel Nacional, March 1960. See also Prints 31, 36, 38 for the student rally; for images of the Sartre and de Beauvoir visit, see also Prints 43, 44 and 47.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 608
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of a trial for counterrevolutionary crimes conducted by a Revolutionary Tribunal in Havana. All witnesses, accused and judicial officials unidentified. See Print 55.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 609
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of a couple of foreign tourists gambling at an opulently decorated casino, probably located at the Hotel Nacional. The male tourist is wearing a fake beard, apparently as a public affront to the revolutionaries then in power. See also Prints 52, 53, 55, 56, 61 and 62.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
[1960?]
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 610
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images taken of several businesses in Havana's Barrio Chino, or Chinese quarter, probably in early 1960. Top frames show street peddlers selling books and oranges on la Calle Zanja, or Zanja street. The second and third sets of frames show a typographers' workshop and a Chinese herb and medicine shop. The fourth set of frames shows the offices of unidentified business in which three Cubans, one Chinese, one creole white and one mulatto, as well as a young creole white office boy, attend to a visiting foreigner, possibly Jay Mallin, a reporter who often accompanied the photographer.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 613
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of several black Cuban boys watching events inside a Havana restaurant called "El Arabe," probably located in Habana Vieja. Street children abounded in this area of the capital during the 1950s and were a frequent subject of foreign travel and journalistic accounts.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 614
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames depict proceedings at a Revolutionary Tribunal after they were recommissioned in the fall of 1959 by decree of Fidel Castro. All witnesses, accused and judicial officials unidentified. Bottom frames depict foreign tourists gambling at a casino, probably located at the Hotel Nacional. For more images of this Revolutionary Tribunal, see Print 49; for more images of gamblers, see Prints 51, 52, 53, 56, 61, 62.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 615
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of foreign tourists gambling at two different casinos; the top frames were probably taken at the Hotel Nacional while the bottom frames were taken at the Havana Hilton. Very bottom-most frame (corner) shows signs for gamblers indicating that the U.S. dollar and the Cuban peso still traded at exactly a 1:1 rate; players were asked to use one or the other but not both. See also Prints 51, 52, 53, 55, 61 and 62.