From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 December
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 645
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top row of frames shows Fidel Castro giving a speech on Cuba's national television program, "Ante la Prensa," in which he holds up a newspaper clipping featuring two articles: one on new state regulations on the number of hours that employees could work in the business sector during the Christmas season, the other titled, "Actuaba el Padre Aguirre de Batabanó en contra la Revolución (Father Aguirre of Batabanó acted against the Revolution"). Second row of frames shows an unidentified foreigner dining at La Zaragozana, a restaurant near the Parque Central of Havana. Bottom rows of frames show Fidel Castro addressing delegates and the media at the Congress of the Federación Nacional de Trabajadores del Azucar [FNTA], representing 234 sugar workers' unions, held in Havana. For images of the FNTA congress and Fidel speaking on television, see also Prints 73, 75, 83, 84 and 85; for images of the unidentified foreigner, see also Prints 78, 81 and 82.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May 1
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 567
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of the morning-time parade held on May 1, 1960, to commemorate International Labor Day in the Plaza Cívica of Havana. Top frames of the sheet show armored tanks, antiaircraft guns and other military vehicles of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias. Bottom frames show members of the women's militias, organized for the first time six months earlier.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May 1
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 568
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames show Fidel Castro as he gives his speech for the May Day celebration held in the Plaza Cívica on May 1, 1960, before a massive audience that has been assembled since early that morning when a military and civic parade took place. Bottom frames of the print show a man pouring a beer while standing in front of two beer kegs, while other members of the crowd cheer Fidel's speech by waving their hats or white handkerchiefs. Photographs were shot at dusk.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958 and 1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 742
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro is shown in top row of frames holding a small spy camera, probably belonging to Saint George. These images may have been taken at guerrilla headquarters in La Plata, in late 1958. Remaining images show Fidel Castro addressing a television audience in June of 1960. See also Prints 31, 33, 37, 38.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 743
Image Count:
1
Description:
Two unrelated sets of images appear in this print. The top three rows show Fidel Castro in close-up, as well as several unidentified peasants, probably taken in late 1958 at La Plata, guerrilla army headquarters. The bottom rows show David Salvador, Secretary General of the CTC, addressing the general Congress of worker delegates that met in November of 1959 in Havana; the last row of images shows Fidel Castro addressing workers at the subsequent congress of the Federación Nacional de Trabajadores del Azucar [FNTA], held in Havana in December of 1959. Further documentation of both workers' congresses can be found in Contact Book VIII. See also Prints 30, 33, 38, 39 and Contact Book VIII.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960, 1959 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 744
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images taken at different moments, possibly unrelated periods. Top row and bottom two rows show Fidel Castro delivering a speech before a televised audience; in the background hangs a Cuban flag. The second row and third row from the top show Fidel Castro greeting and speaking with Herbert Matthews of the New York Times, the journalist who first launched Fidel and his guerrillas onto the world stage after meeting with them in the Sierra Maestra and filing a series of reports lauding their struggle in February 1957. This was the first encounter that Fidel had had with Matthews after that initial and pivotal meeting and it took place in the first days of 1959. Frames 11 and 12 of the fourth row of images from the top show Nancie Matthews, Herbert Matthews' wife, and Celia Sánchez. See also Prints 34, 37 and 38.