From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 533-534
Image Count:
2
Description:
Unidentified wealthy Cuban businessman in his office, seen amidst several members of his staff in a general office area. This man may have been the subject of a story St. George did with another reporter. 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." See also Prints 85, 86 and 88.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May 1
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 570
Image Count:
2
Description:
Top frames of this print show President Osvaldo Dorticós, Prime Minister Fidel Castro and an unidentified Cuban official also dressed in army fatigues as they observe the May Day parade of military and popular militias before the national monument to José Martí at whose base they stand. Like these officials, a woman from the crowd is shown wearing the signature "guajiro" or traditional Cuban peasant hat that became a trademark of the early years of the Revolution and was widely distributed for mass rallies. In the second set of frames, the popular peasant militia is pictured in uniforms that include this hat while another militia, possibly a workers' brigade, is shown parading in black or dark-colored boinas, or berets. Final frames show Fidel Castro at a later point in the day, around dusk, when he delivered an address to the assembly. In the two last frames of the print, a white dove is shown perched on the podium, to the left of Fidel. The use of white doves to inaugurate Fidel's speeches became common after the spectacularly positive effect that the release of several trained white doves had on the Cuban people at Fidel's first victorious address to the Cuban people at Camp Columbia on January 8, 1959. See also Print 15.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May 1
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 571
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro addressing the assembled crowds at the May Day rally on May 1, 1960, held at the Plaza Cívica in Havana. These images were taken during the latter hours of Fidel's speech, long after the sun had set and night fallen.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May 1
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 572
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of Fidel Castro addressing the assembled crowds at the May Day rally on May 1, 1960, held at the Plaza Cívica in Havana. The frames in the top half of the print are out of chronological order in that they were taken during the latter part of Fidel's speech when night had already fallen; the bottom half of the print shows Fidel speaking at dusk, when he began his address.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May 1
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 573
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro addressing the assembled crowds at the May Day rally on May 1, 1960, held at the Plaza Cívica in Havana. These images were taken during the latter hours of Fidel's speech, long after the sun had set and night fallen. Two prints included in this folder. The second print shows one image of militia members sitting before a stretched flag (probably of the militia itself) also shown in Print 8.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May 1
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 574
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of the military and civic parade that launched the May Day celebration and rally in the Plaza Cívica of Havana, held on May 1, 1960. Top frames show two more images of the same woman from the crowd who wears a guajiro, or traditional Cuban peasant hat, as well as Juan Almeida Bosque, then commander of the Cuban Revolutionary Air Force, and two unidentified bearded officials sitting on his right and left. In the second set of frames, Cuba's famed poet and longtime Communist Party member Nicolás Guillén is pictured holding a Cuban flag while he and others watch the parade from the platform at the foot of the national monument to José Martí. Images of the crowd in the same set of frames show a banner held by members of the national gastronomic workers' union. Other images depict the marches of a government-organized all-male militia, as well as soldiers of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces. Bottom frames show the recently organized women's popular militias.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May 1
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 575
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of the Plaza Cívica, probably taken from the vantage point of the Biblioteca Nacional José Martí as the hundreds of thousands of participants in the May Day rally and parade celebration begin to gather. Images were probably shot in the morning, May 1, 1960.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May 1
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 576
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of the May Day rally and celebration held in Havana's Plaza Cívica on May 1, 1960. Top frames show the peasant popular militias as they march in formation, as well as Fidel Castro delivering his address to the assembled crowd several hours later.