- Creator:
- From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
- Published / Created:
- Circa 1958
- Call Number:
- MS 1912
- Container / Volume:
- Box 42, folder 1
- Image Count:
- 14
- Description:
- The images of guerrillas in Fidel Castro’s column are engaged in wartime activities and scenes of everyday life. The photographs show the preparation of hand-made bombs in a clandestine bomb shop run by a bearded veteran of the Spanish Civil War; guerrillas manning a look-out post from the mountains near El Cobre, Oriente while others are engaged in routine activities such as cleaning a rifle, repairing a uniform with a Singer sewing machine, relaxing with children in the guerrilla camp, enjoying a pig roast, and a man applying talcum powder to a young boy.
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- Manuscripts and Archives > Andrew St. George papers (MS 1912) > Series II: Photographs > Cuba > Cuban Revolution and aftermath > 26th of July guerrillas, Fidel’s Column, Sierra Maestra
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- Creator:
- From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
- Published / Created:
- 1959 October
- Call Number:
- MS 1912
- Container / Volume:
- Box 45, folder 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Found in:
- Manuscripts and Archives > Andrew St. George papers (MS 1912) > Series II: Photographs > Cuba > Cuban Revolution and aftermath > ASTA Convention October 1959, speech by Fidel
- Creator:
- From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
- Published / Created:
- 1960 January
- Call Number:
- MS 1912
- Container / Volume:
- Box 46, folder 13
- Image Count:
- 4
- Description:
- Dating from the early months of 1960, these photographs were taken when St. George accompanied Fidel Castro and Antonio Nuñez Jiménez, both directors of Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria (INRA), as they made an inspection tour of recently nationalized farms and plantations in the interior of the country. The images include a shot of several university-age students outfitted in militia uniforms as they await the arrival of a bus that will probably take them to a political education camp in the mountains. The students wear new boots and are carrying weapons as well as personal items, including multiple packs of cigarettes in the case of the boy and a fashionable fur hat in the case of one of the girls. Another image shows Fidel and his aide René Vallejo surrounded by peasants in a small town. Additional images show Fidel walking along a road at a state farm with others; Fidel addressing a group of peasants at the state farm’s social club for workers (volleyball net in foreground, Fidel’s head barely visible above the crowd); a young peasant with a rifle doing guard duty before the INRA Tienda del Pueblo; INRA officials in a corn field; Vallejo talking with officials at the foot of a ceiba tree; an unidentified construction site; peasants lounging on a tractor as the sun sets in the background; peasant driving an ox cart; Vallejo reviewing correspondence in a hotel room; and peasants on a cart in front of the Tienda del Pueblo.
- Found in:
- Manuscripts and Archives > Andrew St. George papers (MS 1912) > Series II: Photographs > Cuba > Cuban Revolution and aftermath > Accompanying René Vallejo and Fidel Castro on inspection of rural projects
- Creator:
- From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
- Published / Created:
- 1960
- Call Number:
- MS 1912
- Container / Volume:
- Box 45, folder 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Found in:
- Manuscripts and Archives > Andrew St. George papers (MS 1912) > Series II: Photographs > Cuba > Cuban Revolution and aftermath > Arrest of Fernando Vásquez by G2, Cuban intelligence forces
- Creator:
- From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
- Published / Created:
- 1960 March
- Call Number:
- MS 1912
- Container / Volume:
- Box 45, folder 3
- Image Count:
- 2
- Found in:
- Manuscripts and Archives > Andrew St. George papers (MS 1912) > Series II: Photographs > Cuba > Cuban Revolution and aftermath > CTC Congress (Cuban Labor Confederation)
- Creator:
- From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
- Published / Created:
- 1959 April
- Call Number:
- MS 1912
- Container / Volume:
- Box 42, folder 10
- Image Count:
- 2
- Found in:
- Manuscripts and Archives > Andrew St. George papers (MS 1912) > Series II: Photographs > Cuba > Cuban Revolution and aftermath > Enma Castro’s wedding at the National Cathedral (Havana)
- Creator:
- From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
- Published / Created:
- 1959 March 6
- Call Number:
- MS 1912
- Container / Volume:
- Box 42, folder 11
- Image Count:
- 5
- Description:
- Fidel Castro and U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal had their first face-to-face meeting on March 6, 1959, at Castro's villa in Cojímar. These photographs document that event. In one image an unidentified rebel officer is standing between Bonsal and Castro. Included are a number of pictures of Bonsal conversing with the Cuban Minister of Foreign Relations, Roberto Agramonte, possibly before Fidel arrived. There are photographs of others shown waiting and mingling in the same location.
- Found in:
- Manuscripts and Archives > Andrew St. George papers (MS 1912) > Series II: Photographs > Cuba > Cuban Revolution and aftermath > Fidel Castro meets with U. S. Ambassador Philip Bonsal in Cojímar, Cuba
- Creator:
- From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
- Published / Created:
- 1959 April
- Call Number:
- MS 1912
- Container / Volume:
- Box 46, folder 2
- Image Count:
- 2
- Description:
- These photographs were taken during Fidel Castro’s two-week tour of the northeast United States on invitation of the National Press Club. One photograph shows him sitting in a New York City hotel surrounded by 5 women. The notation by St. George on the back reads: “This unusual photo shows Fidel Castro with five women who played a significant romantic role in his life. From left to right: Conchita Fernández (no hat) in whose house he lived and who was his lady friend in Habana while Castro was finishing law school and beginning his political career; Tete Casuso (bangs, off-the-shoulder dress) in whose house he lived in romantic union during his year of exile in Mexico City in 1956; Isabela Montero, a fashionable Havana divorcee who was frequently seen with Castro in 1960; Celia Sánchez, with whom he lived and who served as his principal courier during the two years of jungle guerrilla warfare (1957-1958); and Nora Serrano, a Havana journalist, who often stayed overnight with Castro in the Habana Hilton in 1961-62 (wide-brimmed white hat).” The photograph of Castro responding to reporters questions with his translator Tete Casuso at his side includes this caption: “Seated next to Castro (right) is Tete Casuso, who was his paramour and in whose house Castro lived during his year of exile in Mexico. After rebel victory in Habana, Mme. Casuso was rewarded with post of Castro’s personal Pressechef and she traveled everywhere with Fidel. But fierce jealousies and deadly intrigues among ladies of what Mme. Casuso used to call ‘Fidel’s harem’ – Celia Sanchez, Conchita Fernandez, other, younger women – drove Mme. Casuso into exile in the mid-Sixties. She now lives in France.” Additional photographs show Fidel after placing a floral wreath at the foot of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC; giving a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors at the Statler Hilton in New York with Tete Casuso gazing at Castro; making a televised appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on April 19, 1959, with the show’s moderator Ned Brooks and interpreter Anthony Hervas (an identical photograph is in Box 8, folder 7); and giving an interview to an unidentified reporter.
- Found in:
- Manuscripts and Archives > Andrew St. George papers (MS 1912) > Series II: Photographs > Cuba > Cuban Revolution and aftermath > Fidel Castro’s tour of northeast U. S.
- Creator:
- From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
- Published / Created:
- 1960 September
- Call Number:
- MS 1912
- Container / Volume:
- Box 46, Box 3
- Image Count:
- 7
- Description:
- These photographs document Fidel Castro and his delegation’s September 1960 visit to New York City to attend a meeting at the United Nations where Fidel gave his famous speech announcing the upcoming Literacy Campaign of 1961. The Cuban delegates ultimately stayed at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem after a dispute with a Manhattan hotel. One photograph shows African American supporters demonstrating in Harlem and fighting off police; hand-held signs read “US Jim Crows Fidel Just Like US Jim Crows Us Negroes!” and “Fidel is Welcome in Harlem Anytime!”. Additional images show the police escort standing before the entrance to the Hotel Theresa; Fidel and Juan Almeida enjoying a dinner with the hotel staff before a mob of reporters at the hotel; Almeida talking to two waitresses at a nearby coffee shop; Almeida and other Cuban delegates, including Antonio Nuñez Jiménez, standing at the counter of the same coffee shop, apparently listening to someone or watching a televised broadcast; crowds of supporters standing before the windows of the hotel; members of the delegation looking down at them; and of a demonstration against Castro where protesters stood behind a barricade holding a large poster image of image of Camilo Cienfuegos and signs comparing Fidel to Hitler. In the foreground, next to a shouting demonstrator wearing a hand-painted T-shirt reading ‘Cuba SI’ (in English, Cuba Yes) is Luis Conte Agüero. Conte Agüero had been Castro’s close friend and informal public relations manager during his imprisonment on the Isle of Pines under Batista from 1953 to 1955. Conte Agüero left Cuba in 1960; at the time, he was a journalist and television personality. An identical photograph is in Box 8, folder 7.
- Found in:
- Manuscripts and Archives > Andrew St. George papers (MS 1912) > Series II: Photographs > Cuba > Cuban Revolution and aftermath > Fidel's visit to New York
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- Creator:
- From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
- Published / Created:
- 1959 January
- Call Number:
- MS 1912
- Container / Volume:
- Box 42, folder 7
- Image Count:
- 19
- Description:
- All photographs in this folder date from the first week of January 1959. Included are images of Fidel Castro’s caravan of cars and requisitioned tanks making their way westward from Oriente to Havana. In several images Fidel Castro is shown chatting with nuns as he makes one of his famous impromptu stops along the way. One photograph includes Castro with several Americans: Dr. Judson U. McGuire, Jr. (on Castro's right), an entomologist with the United States Department of Agriculture; Jules Dubois (wearing black necktie) of the "Chicago Tribune", and McGuire's daughter wearing a white blouse. There are also two shots of the airplane that took civilian members of the new government to Havana. One shows Armando Hart, Haydée Santamaría (his wife), Luis Busch, secretary to President Manuel Urrutia, and José Llanuga, identified as “organ director in the U.S.”. Another image of revolutionaries from the military and civilian wings of the 26th of July movement meeting on the tarmac with a uniformed man described as Major Julio Martínez Paez, a medical doctor (St. George notes on the verso “Min of Health 1st fulltime doc, Havana surgeon”). There is a photograph of a young 18-year-old guerrilla drinking Coca Cola as he guards the entrance to a plane. St. George identifies this man as Hanibal Hidalgo “son of Mario”. St. George also notes that the young man is doing guard duty as both Fidel Castro and the newly installed President Manuel Urrutia are on the plane. Two photographs taken at a Presidential Palace cocktail party in Havana show a rebel with Afro-style hair. On the back of one of these prints, St. George wrote, “At left one of Che Guevara aides allegedly killed with him in Bolivia.” There is a print of the revolutionary cabinet and Fidel Castro; he still did not occupy a position in the new government at the first major news conference held in Havana. Fidel is seen standing at the microphones, speaking. There are two prints of homemade busts of Fidel Castro with lottery tickets that were sold on the street by a vendor. The verso of this photographs reads: “‘22) Cuba’s Castro Craze produces these plaster of Paris busts which are sold by vendors along with national lottery tickets throughout Cuba. July 6th, the 8th anniversary of his civil war, is being celebrated by the presence of the Communist cosmonaut Major Yuri Gagarin. Credit: Andrew St. George ©1961 Magnum Photos.”
- Found in:
- Manuscripts and Archives > Andrew St. George papers (MS 1912) > Series II: Photographs > Cuba > Cuban Revolution and aftermath > First week of January 1959: Fidel’s victory caravan to Havana; speeches and press conference along the way; civilian leaders of 26th of July Movement