From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 640
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames depict an unidentified foreign man wearing a business suit speaking on the telephone and posing for the photographer's camera at the Polynesian restaurant at the Havana Hilton Hotel. The second set of frames shows images of a bathroom followed by images of the same man greeting a Cuban with glasses and wearing a tie and jacket at the Polynesian restaurant. The last two sets of frames show a panel of leading women activists of the period, apparently speaking for a television broadcast. Frames 28 and 29 show from left to right, Loló de la Torriente, Vilma Espín, E. Lina Milanés and an unidentified older woman with white hair and glasses. For images of the unidentified foreigner and his Cuban counterparts see also Prints 39, 79, 82, and 86. For other images of the female panelists, see Prints 66 and 67.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 December
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 643
Image Count:
1
Description:
Secretary General of the CTC, David Salvador, addresses delegates and the media at the Congress of the Federación Nacional de Trabajadores del Azucar [FNTA], representing 234 sugar workers' unions, held in Havana in mid-December 1959. Other frames show the workers' delegates' enthusiastic response to Salvador's speech and reporters crowding around Fidel Castro as he smiles and holds up a package wrapped in twine. See also Prints 73, 75, 83, 85 and 86.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 December
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 645
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top row of frames shows Fidel Castro giving a speech on Cuba's national television program, "Ante la Prensa," in which he holds up a newspaper clipping featuring two articles: one on new state regulations on the number of hours that employees could work in the business sector during the Christmas season, the other titled, "Actuaba el Padre Aguirre de Batabanó en contra la Revolución (Father Aguirre of Batabanó acted against the Revolution"). Second row of frames shows an unidentified foreigner dining at La Zaragozana, a restaurant near the Parque Central of Havana. Bottom rows of frames show Fidel Castro addressing delegates and the media at the Congress of the Federación Nacional de Trabajadores del Azucar [FNTA], representing 234 sugar workers' unions, held in Havana. For images of the FNTA congress and Fidel speaking on television, see also Prints 73, 75, 83, 84 and 85; for images of the unidentified foreigner, see also Prints 78, 81 and 82.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May 1
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 567
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of the morning-time parade held on May 1, 1960, to commemorate International Labor Day in the Plaza Cívica of Havana. Top frames of the sheet show armored tanks, antiaircraft guns and other military vehicles of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias. Bottom frames show members of the women's militias, organized for the first time six months earlier.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May 1
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 568
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames show Fidel Castro as he gives his speech for the May Day celebration held in the Plaza Cívica on May 1, 1960, before a massive audience that has been assembled since early that morning when a military and civic parade took place. Bottom frames of the print show a man pouring a beer while standing in front of two beer kegs, while other members of the crowd cheer Fidel's speech by waving their hats or white handkerchiefs. Photographs were shot at dusk.