From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February 5
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 539
Image Count:
1
Description:
Unarmed student protestors as they arrive at the monument to José Martí in Havana's Central Park shortly after Anastas Mikoyan deposited his floral offering to Martí and during their confrontations with police and other non-uniformed members of government security forces. Frames 1-8, 12-16, show them as they approach the monument, carrying picket signs that read "Cuba remember Hungary," "Fidel Saved Cuba, Mikoyan Wants to Sink It." A uniformed member of Cuba's revolutionary militia pulls his pistol and a member of the National Revolutionary Police holds his pistol in sight as the unarmed protestors near the statue. See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 80, 83, 92, 93, 101, 102, 106 and Contact Book VIII; for images related to Mikoyan's floral offering and related anti-Soviet student protest, see Prints 76, 77, 78, 81, 95 and 98.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February 5
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 540
Image Count:
1
Description:
Musicians tuning up as they prepare for a concert at the Gran Teatro García Lorca in honor of the visit of Anastas Mikoyan. The concert featured the national symphony. Frames 19-20 show an unidentified man sitting and working at a typewriter. See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 80, 83, 92, 93, 101, 102, 106 and Contact Book VIII; for specific images of the concert, see also Prints 99 and 100.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February 5
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 541
Image Count:
1
Description:
Unarmed student protestors as they protest Anastas Mikoyan's presence in Cuba and his depositing of a floral offering to José Martí in Havana's Central Park. Frames 7-8 show them resisting police and non-uniformed militiamen's efforts to eject them from the park. Frame 11 shows a policeman guarding the Soviet emissary's floral offering as he pulls a gun on the students, as do civilian-dressed underground security agents standing around him. See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 80, 83, 92, 93, 101, 102, 106 and Contact Book VIII; for images related to Mikoyan's floral offering and related anti-Soviet student protest, see Prints 76, 77, 78, 81, 95 and 96.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 542
Image Count:
1
Description:
Anastas Mikoyan seated in principal balcony area of the Gran Teatro García Lorca. Final frame on the bottom shows Vilma Espín seated next to Che Guevara and his wife, Aleida March, with Raúl Castro directly behind Vilma Espín, his wife. See also Prints 97 and 100.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 452
Image Count:
3
Description:
Contains three sheets. Images of children on the playground at the newly constructed school, "Ciudad Libertad," on the former military base of Camp Columbia, Havana. Camp Columbia had been the site of the Sergeants' Revolt, led by Fulgencio Batista, against army superiors. This action, taken in favor of the revolutionary movement against the dictator Machado, made Batista an instant national hero until his rupture with Cuba's short-lived revolutionary government in 1933. Thereafter and until 1959, Camp Columbia had been the principal military operations and intelligence depot for the dictator Fulgencio Batista's national army. Consequently, the transformation of Camp Columbia into a place for the educational uplift of peasants acquired particular symbolic value after the Revolution. Ironically, as the images show, the system of education and cultural values instilled by school programs (such as daily assembly) were highly militarized. See also Prints 2, 6, 32, 33, 34, and 36.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February 5
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 544-545
Image Count:
2
Description:
Televised press conference with Anastas Mikoyan and his Soviet translator, held the day before the announcement of a historic, new trade deal between the Soviet Union and Cuba. See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 80, 83, 92, 93 and 106.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 546-548
Image Count:
3
Description:
Fidel Castro's televised presentation on the merits of the new $100,000,000 trade agreement signed with the Soviet Union earlier that week. Fidel is shown before the maps and charts that he brought along to illustrate the advantages the Soviets offered Cuba. The name of the television program was "Ante la prensa". See also Prints 104, 105, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111 and 112.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 486-495
Image Count:
10
Description:
Latin American visitors and writers who participated in the first conference on literature hosted by the Cuban government and held in spring 1960. The conference was the work of Lunes, the literary supplement to Revolución, the official newspaper of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, as well as Vilma Espín, founder and president-for-life of the Federación de Mujeres Cubanas. See also Prints 5, 15, 23, 24, 28 and 55.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 528-529
Image Count:
2
Description:
Unidentified wealthy Cuban businessman in his office with a member of his staff seen answering the phone behind him. This man is being interviewed by another reporter while St. George takes his picture. It is likely that the reporter has interviewed the businessman on the occasion of Mikoyan's visit, amidst speculation that the Revolution was already or soon to become "Communist." There is a photograph of what appears to be a priest or member of the Catholic clergy on the table behind him (see Print 85 frames 22-24.) See also Prints 88, 90 and 91.