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.