From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 45
Image Count:
1
Description:
Four unrelated frames. Top left frame shows three guerrillas on a march along riverbed; on the left side of the frame is Efigenio Ameijeiras watching as the soldier in the middle appears to be rubbing his face after washing it in the river. The right, top frame shows Raúl Castro reading at a table in a peasant hut. Bottom left frame shows Felipe Guerra Matos sleeping in a hammock and final frame shows a group of unidentified guerrillas standing with rifles and apparently listening to a man telling a story.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 46
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames show Raúl Castro and unidentified peasant girl gazing from outside a peasant hut that functions as a mess hall. Second row of frames shows Fidel Castro standing with Juan Almeida Bosque to his side (frame 174) and Ramiro Valdéz (in metal helmet) and soldier; frames 175 and 176 show Raul Castro (with pipe), Juan Almeida Bosque, Fidel Castro and Ramiro Valdéz (with metal helmet). Frames 169-170 show Fidel receiving a message from a guerrilla arriving on horseback (also shown in Print 27 as he rides into base camp). Bottom frames show Fidel posing as he aims his rifle before guerrilla spectators. See also Prints 27 and 40.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 47
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro conversing with fellow rebel leaders, including from left to right, an unidentified light-eyed guerrilla, Raúl Castro and Juan Almeida Bosque. Subsequent images show Fidel with Almeida Bosque and final frames show Fidel talking to a group of peasants.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 48
Image Count:
3
Description:
Top row, far-right-corner frame, shows Oniria Gutiérrez, a 16-year-old female guerrilla, posing with a telescopic rifle belonging to Fidel Castro. According to St. George, this same rifle was "loaned" to other guerrillas during his stay in 1957 so as to give the impression that the rebels owned more than one and were well-armed. In this Print, the same rifle also appears in the hands of unknown black guerrilla soldier in the last frame of the last row, alongside a second image of Oniria Gutiérrez as she examines an unloaded hand pistol. Oniria is seen leaning out of the window and sitting beside a house that served as an army kitchen, as seen in Print 34. Beginning with frame 112 in the top row and in successive frames (marked 106, 107, 113, 115, 116) appears Crescencio Pérez, the older man with white and grey beard, who can be seen most clearly standing at the center of a group of rebels in frame 112 and drinking coffee in subsequent frame. Crescencio Pérez was the first peasant recruit to the guerrillas and the first local landowner to offer the rebels sanctuary and aid when they arrived in the Sierra Maestra in December of 1956. In 1959, Fidel Castro awarded him the rank of Commander (Comandante). In frames 115 and 116, Pérez talks to Fidel Castro as they sit along the shore of a riverbed. In frame 118, Fidel Castro speaks to a peasant scout flanked by Juan Almeida Bosque and an unidentified guerrilla (wearing a metal helmet). See also Prints 34, 47 and 48.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 49
Image Count:
1
Description:
Six frames showing Oniria Gutiérrez, a 16-year-old female guerrilla, examining the empty barrel of a hand pistol and conversing through the window of a peasant hut (that serves as kitchen in Print 34) with an unidentified male guerrilla holding a pipe in one hand and a rifle in the other. See also Prints 47 and 34.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 50
Image Count:
1
Description:
Various scenes of off-duty rebel soldiers relaxing and sleeping in a base camp. Last rows of frames show various rebels sleeping in hammocks by day. Folder contains one complete and one partial contact sheet; also contains small file card that reads: St. George #30275. Cuba-Third Trip to Sierra - Apr. 1958. On reverse reads: FBI. "How Much does FBI know about ---? [illeg]", McCall's, May, 195?. K. Kolle [illeg]
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 5
Image Count:
2
Description:
Campsite of Fidel Castro's guerrilla column in the area between El Hombrito and guerrilla headquarters at La Plata in the Sierra Maestra. Bottom frames 1 and 2 show the young boy soldier known as "Pedrito," Universo Sánchez and Ernesto "Che" Guevara, then serving as the rebels' medical officer. Frame 3 shows Universo Sánchez and Celia Sánchez (no relation) holding opposite ends of the Cuban flag. Behind them stands Crescencio Pérez, a local peasant leader whose influence among the local people and knowledge of the region made him an essential factor in the early period of the guerrilla struggle. In the foreground stands Ciro Redondo. Frames 5-7 show Fidel Castro relaxing at camp, reading a newspaper and enjoying a can of sweetened condensed milk, a staple food for the guerrilla that along with bacalao, guava paste and other nonperishable items was acquired and shipped to the rebels through the revolutionary underground in Oriente. Folder contains contact sheet and slide transparency of black and white photograph of Fidel reading a newspaper (Frame 7 of contact sheet) in envelope.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 51
Image Count:
1
Description:
Various images of rebels as they march into a peasant village where the peasants have assembled a large number of Molotov cocktails for use by the rebels. In frames 14-16, the peasants are seen posing with the explosive devices and pretending to toss them (frame 16). See also Print 52.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 52
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of two overweight men dressed in civilian clothes, one of whom (wearing glasses and taking notes) appears to be a foreign journalist. The other man, wearing a hat, appears to be a Cuban working in the revolutionary underground. Fidel is lying on a bed while the journalist and the other unidentified man lean onto the top of a closed Singer sewing machine. See also Prints 61, 66 and 53.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 53
Image Count:
1
Description:
The top three rows of this sheet depict Fidel Castro in various poses, first with a large creole hen in his hands, and later smoking. Bottom four rows depict a secret guerrilla munitions factory and various guerrillas in the process of manufacturing bombs and explosive projectiles for use in the war. See also Print 50.