From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 7
Image Count:
3
Description:
Frame 1 shows Ernesto "Che" Guevara seated with Manuel Fajardo and Juan Almeida Bosque behind him (left to right). Frames 2 and 3 show Luis "El Guajiro" Crespo standing in profile, by tree, Ciro Redondo, Manuel Fajardo (with large pack) and Che Guevara (seated). Frames 4-7 show Fidel Castro.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 8
Image Count:
1
Description:
Frames 1-2 show the photographer, Andrew St. George. Frames 3-4 show a group of unidentified peasant recruits holding peeled sugar cane stalks and weapons. Sitting at the far left in leather jacket is Victor Boronat, a member of the underground and rebel recruit from Manzanillo, Oriente. Frames 5-6 show Boronat playing guitar for a group of peasant recruits. Directly in front of him with curly hair and beard is Julio Díaz. Man next to him in a black beret is unidentified.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 80
Image Count:
1
Description:
Between El Corojo and Santiago, rebels move down to sea: a strategic breakthrough. Shown here are rebel activities in area under Cdte. Rene de los Santos' command: vehicle checks (frames 19-25); checkpoint has jeep, rear guards (frames 26-29); captured vehicles are repaired in Caballo Loco's service station. See also Prints 3 and 5.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 81
Image Count:
1
Description:
A key rebel rear-area command post: the Seccion del Café (note flag on frames 13-14) under Capt. Ernesto Alona Sabas (shown on phone in frame 12). This rebel department supervised coffee harvests as far as rebel authority reached and collected taxes: it was one of the guerrilla army's earliest systematic governmental functions. Other key personalities are Cdte. Luis "El Guajiro" Crespo (frames 5-6); the seldom-photographed Cdte. Calixto Garcia (frames 28-30): Cdte. Garcia is officer with sombrero and gunbelt standing to left of weapons carrier; and Capt. Waldo Gonzalez Roig (frame 16). Note officer on frame 18 (beret) is one of rebel army's three principal surgeons: unidentified here.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 82
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top three rows of frames show monitoring set at RR12 identified on Print 4. Lower four rows of frames record the passing of the secret "defection team" of Cdte. Raul Chibas and Jose Quevedo noted on Print 7. On frame 31 Cdte. Chibas is shown in center (sombrero, eyeglasses); on next two frames photographer is shown with rebel radio operator Maria-Luisa Sabas. On frame 22 rebel radio personnel and the Chibas Team are shown in joint group. Standing in left rear is Cdte. Chibas (glasses); before him are rebel radio operator Maria-Luisa Sabas and one of the early Castro movements' key woman figures, Melba Hernandez (Mme. Jesus Montane) wearing scarf over head. Kneeling on extreme right is photographer's travel aide, Lt. Hanibal Hidalgo. This sheet adjoins Prints 3 and 7.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 83
Image Count:
1
Description:
The principal figure is Cdte. Rene de los Santos, whose command post was above Santiago. Frames 31-33 show the roadblock of Cdte. de los Santos' post on one of the seaside back roads leading toward Siboney and Santiago. Frames 5-7 show a typical puesto guerrillero de sacamuelas, i.e. improvised rebel dental station manned by a lay "dentist." Dental therapy of the sacamuelas station was invariably limited to extraction. Children in additional frames are Cuban rural child types.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 84
Image Count:
1
Description:
Glimpses of two rebel command posts - small, temporary ones - on the approaches to La Plata, Fidel Castro's headquarters. Frames 4-12 show the station (and bomb shop) of Cdte. Luis "El Guajiro" Crespo at Naranjo. Cdte. Crespo is shown on frame 4 et seq. giving therapeutic massage to a small crippled child whom he had adopted as a mascot. Frames 11-12 show crew of Crespo's station: Crespo is sitting front center and next to him (right, beard) is El Gallego Maestro, as this truly masterful dinamitero was known. Frame 15-17: Capt. Mario Hidalgo, chief of the other small rebel post shown.here.