From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 763
Image Count:
1
Description:
The top three rows and bottom two rows show images of an unidentified man smoking a cigar and sitting at his desk in an office. Frames 33-37 show the same man examining a newspaper on a podium-style desk with a large salon in the background. This appears to form part of a large newspaper office, for its size, possibly Diario de la Marina, which was housed in a large building on Prado, directly facing the Capitolio. This was the first national newspaper to be occupied by militias loyal to the government and nationalized for supporting counterrevolutionary activities in May of 1960. See also Contact Book 9.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 765
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames show Humberto Sorí Marín, former President of the Inter-American Bar Association, Minister of Agriculture to the revolutionary government until he conspired against the government's decision to declare itself Marxist in 1961 and a principal member of the first guerrilla column led by Fidel Castro whose participation is documented in Contact Book I. Men and voluptuous woman standing with him are unidentified. Subsequent frames show an unidentified man wearing a suit and smoking a cigar. Final frame in the top row shows the same three unidentified women sitting on a couch who appear in Print 59. The second row of frames shows Vilma Espín during her participation in the "Conferencia Latinoamericana" held in the Palacio Deportivo (see Print 54) and the bottom frame shows an unidentified man, probably a participant in the same event. See also Prints 54 and 59.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 766
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images compiled on contact sheet are unrelated to one another. Bottom images numbered 4-5 show the stage of the CTC Congress held in Havana in November of 1959, further documented in Contact Book VII. Middle images show a stage surrounded by a large crowd in what was then called the Palacio Deportivo, now called la Ciudad Deportiva. The table that appears in the middle of the stage features a drape with lettering that reads "Conferencia Latinoamericana." Frame 35 shows Vilma Espín sitting on a panel with unidentified participants as they listen to a speaker reading from a paper and standing before a microphone to the left. See also Print 53.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 767
Image Count:
1
Description:
Print features faraway shots taken of the central speakers dais during the Conferencia Latinoamericana, held in the Palacio Deportivo of Havana. Frame 35 shows Vilma Espín sitting to the far-left of the central table and listening as an unidentified speaker standing to the left of the table reads from a prepared text he holds before him. See also Prints 53, 54 and 59.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 769
Image Count:
1
Description:
This sheet has four unrelated images. Frame 6 shows a guerrilla soldier holding a camera and taking a picture of St. George; next to him is another rebel and in the background is a small military outpost built during the Batista-era for policing the countryside. Because the soldier with the camera wears a handmade armband of the 26th of July Movement, it is likely that this picture was taken in the early months of 1959. The adjacent frame shows an elderly militiaman standing amidst a field strewn with various oil or munition barrels. Frame 16 shows the cashier of a casino standing at his post as a tourist appears to be cashing in his chips. The final frame, numbered 15, shows airport skycaps unloading luggage from the cargo hold of an airplane.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957 and 1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 771
Image Count:
1
Description:
Printed images taken from several different contact sheets. The bottom row of images, showing Raúl Castro and Felipe Guerra Matos, are duplicates of shots that appear in Print 14 of Contact Book I. Top row of images shows three unidentified women sitting on a couch in what appears to be a waiting room, also pictured in Print 53; one is black and very elegantly dressed. The middle row of images shows Raúl Castro standing in the doorway of a peasant hut, with his back to the camera.