From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 448
Image Count:
1
Description:
The opening session of the first literary conference organized by the revolutionary government. Present are Vilma Espín, Raúl Castro's wife and president of the soon-to-be founded Federación de Mujeres Cubanas. Seated in the audience is Nicolás Guillén, Cuba's future poet laureate and a longtime member of the Communist Party (known as the Partido Socialista Popular from the 1930s through the early 1960s). Speakers include Miguel Angel Asturias, the Guatemalan writer who would win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967, as well as Pablo Neruda, the great Chilean poet, also a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1971. The conference was organized, in part, by Carlos Franqui and other contributing editors of Lunes, a literary and cultural supplement to the official state newspaper, Revolución. Lunes was later eliminated in 1961 for taking positions on the role and nature of cultural freedoms contrary to those espoused by government leaders, especially Fidel Castro. See also Prints 15, 23, 24, 28, 43-52 and 55.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 503
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of reporters and Cuban officials grouped together in the entrance of an unidentified modern building, possibly in the United States. They appear to be waiting for the arrival of an important person, possibly Fidel Castro.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 504
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of Soviet Premier Anastas Mikoyan, accompanied by a translator (standing to his right, frame 16) and bodyguards, as he arrives at the Presidential Palace for a state reception during his February 1960 visit. Top row of frames (18-22) shows Mikoyan with his translator speaking to Fidel Castro and Minister of Education Armando Hart. The second row shows Mikoyan, his translator and members of his security detail, chatting with President Osvaldo Dorticós while seated on a couch in the Palace, before the arrival of other officials and ministers. Frames 4-7 appear to show Fidel Castro as he leaves Celia Sánchez's apartment in el Vedado and is escorted to a waiting car. Frames 20-22 show Mikoyan in the company of two Cuban officers of the rebel army: the bearded and pony tailed man is Faustino Pérez; the other is unidentified. This print is an identical duplicate of Prints 70, 71, 80, 83, 92, 93, 101, 102, and 106. See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61-67, 69, 70, 71, 80, 83, 92, 93, 101, 102, 106, and Contact Book VIII.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 505
Image Count:
1
Description:
The initial moments of Soviet Premier Anastas Mikoyan's arrival in Havana in early February 1960. Frames 6-7 show Fidel Castro with Antonio Nuñez Jiménez, the first director of INRA (Instituto Nacional de Reformia Agraria) at his side; frames 8-9 show Ernesto "Che" Guevara and unidentified others standing beside the Soviets' official jet. Frames 10-20 show Ernesto "Che" Guevara looking expectantly at the aircraft while standing inside the airport terminal (it has apparently begun to rain). Che is surrounded by a large group of men in civilian dress, including a tall blond man with glasses (see also Prints 71, 79 [frames 27-35], 80, 83, 92, 93, 101, 102, and 106 [frames 19, 20]), as well as other military officers. Frames 21 and 22 show the Cubans huddled under the awnings of the airport terminal to escape the rain, waving enthusiastically as apparently Mikoyan descends from the plane (see also Print 65). See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 80, 83, 92, 93, 101, 102, 106, and Contact Book VIII.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 506
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of President Dorticós posing with Soviet Premier Mikoyan upon arrival at the Presidential Palace for the formal state reception. This print also includes images of Mikoyan's private bodyguard and Cuban guards stationed at strategic points in the hallway (see frames 5-12). See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 80, 83, 92, 93, 101, 102, 106, and Contact Book VIII.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 507
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of President Dorticós posing with Soviet Premier Mikoyan upon arrival at the Presidential Palace for the formal state reception. See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 80, 83, 92, 93, 101, 102, 106, and Contact Book VIII.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 508
Image Count:
2
Description:
Soviet Vice Premier Mikoyan arriving at the Havana airport. He wears the "traditional" peasant hat of yarey that is given to foreign tourists upon arrival in Havana by official greeters. See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 80, 83, 92, 93, 101, 102, 106, and Contact Book VIII.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 509
Image Count:
1
Description:
Soviet Premier Anastas Mikoyan as he is formally received by President Osvaldo Dorticós and First Lady María Cristina (frames 4-11). There are also images of the reception line in which Mikoyan, his translator and the hosts stand as they receive other officials. Raúl Roa, Minister of Foreign Relations, stands to the left of Mikoyan's translator in frames 15-18. Frames 19-20 show a smiling Fidel Castro as he arrives to greet Mikoyan at the reception. See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 67, 69, 70, 71, 80, 83, 92, 93, 101, 102, 106, and Contact Book VIII.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 510
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of Soviet Vice Premier Anastas Mikoyan and Prime Minister Fidel Castro signing the Soviet Union's first historic trade package with Cuba, representing $100,000,000 in trade. An unidentified, well-shaven man with greased hair stands above them, putting the papers in order (see also Prints 72 and 79). The ceremony took place at the opulent, expropriated mansion on Havana's Avenue of Presidents that later became the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (MINREX). See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66, 69, 70, 71, 80, 83, 92, 93, 101, 102, 106, and Contact Book VIII.