From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 33
Image Count:
1
Description:
Frames 46 and 47 show guerrilla Luis Crespo. Frames 44 and 45 show two guerrillas taking a break, apparently after bathing in a nearby river. One of the men combs the other's hair; in frame 44, a young adolescent boy guerrilla looks on with amusement. Frame 43 shows three guerrillas examining the back page of a magazine.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 34
Image Count:
2
Description:
First frame shows court-martial of a local peasant, possibly accused of being a double agent, near El Naranjo, Sierra Maestra. The succeeding frame shows a group of peasants brought to serve as witnesses at his trial. Final picture shows captured prisoners being guarded at night in the center of guerrilla camp. Raúl Castro can be seen talking to an unidentified guard on the left-hand side of the frame. See also Prints 15, 18, 19, 26, 30, 31, 35, 36, 37 and 41.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 35
Image Count:
1
Description:
A duplicate image from Print 47 of Cresencio Pérez sitting with a group of guerrillas having a meal and drinking coffee. Oniria Gutiérrez appears in frames 107 and 108 as she cooks in the army kitchen and sits examining a pistol on the ground next to the house. The final frame shows Juan Almeida Bosque on horseback with rebel messenger also riding into camp on horseback. See also Print 47.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 36
Image Count:
2
Description:
Part of a five-man firing squad as they shoot and execute an unidentified local peasant who confessed and was convicted, according to St. George, of rape and murder. The man wears a "captain's hat" and probably led a local gang of bandits. See also Prints 15, 18, 19, 26, 30, 31, 33, 36, 37 and 41; folder also contains two smaller-size prints of the soldiers caught in the act of firing at the prisoner.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 37
Image Count:
3
Description:
Rebel unit with Fidel Castro as they pause on a mountain path to take a break from marching. Frames 145 and 146 show Fidel Castro sitting in the midst of a group on the ground. Frames 139 and 140 show rebels drinking fresh milk from a pail. In the center of the frame stands Efigenio Ameijeiras with Antonio Dahud on his left (standing in beret) and Manuel A. Piñeiro (also known as "Barba Roja") on his right (crouching with beret). Dahud also appears to the far right of frame 141 next to a man eating sweetened condensed milk from a can.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 39
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames show a guerrilla messenger and peasant scout arriving on horseback and same guerrilla messenger who in Prints 27, 40, 45 is seen carrying messages to Fidel Castro. Second row of photographs shows a duplicate shot of St. George photographing himself in the mirror at a safe house in Manzanillo (see Print 13). Other images in the second row show guerrillas relaxing with guns in front of a peasant hut and a group of guerrillas sifting beans for small stones and other debris before cooking. The last row of frames begins with a picture of either a small boy or old man wearing baggy pants and standing on top of an abandoned refrigerator in the middle of what had been a peasant dwelling that was burned or bombed to the ground; surrounding the boy on the refrigerator, one can see the original wall posts marking the limits of the house. Final two frames show unidentified rebels marching up from a river bed. See also Prints 27, 40, 45; for St. George photographing himself in safe house, see Print 13.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 4
Image Count:
4
Description:
Folder includes individual photograph in envelope marked "Christ with a cannon [Fidel Castro]." This photograph shows Fidel Castro holding a telescopic rifle and wearing a gold Catholic medallion. Standing behind him and holding an automatic weapon is Camilo Cienfuegos. Contact sheet: Frame 1 shows "Palmero," a peasant guide who led St. George to the rebel camp, an unidentified peasant man in the doorway of the hut, Ciro Redondo, also in the doorway with his back to the camera, Camilo Cienfuegos (standing with submachine gun), Fidel Castro and Andrew St. George (sitting). Frame 2 shows the same men, although Palmero is out of the frame. Frame 3 shows from left to right, Palmero, Camilo Cienfuegos, Ciro Redondo, and seated, Andrew St. George and Fidel Castro. Frames 4, 5 and 6 show the following men from left to right: Palmero the guide, Marcelo Fernández (seated, holding Magnemite tape recorder and wearing beret), Ciro Redondo (standing), Fidel Castro (seated) and Camilo Cienfuegos (standing with cigar in his mouth). Frame 7 is the contact sheet version of the photographic print enclosed in the folder. Frame 8 shows Raúl Castro (standing with both hands around rifle barrel), Camilo Cienfuegos (standing with automatic weapon) and Fidel Castro (seated). Folder contains contact sheet and photograph (of Frame 7) in envelope.