From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 615
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of foreign tourists gambling at two different casinos; the top frames were probably taken at the Hotel Nacional while the bottom frames were taken at the Havana Hilton. Very bottom-most frame (corner) shows signs for gamblers indicating that the U.S. dollar and the Cuban peso still traded at exactly a 1:1 rate; players were asked to use one or the other but not both. See also Prints 51, 52, 53, 55, 61 and 62.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 616
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of crowds of Cubans waiting at an apparent police check point set up at the Rotonda de Marianao, an obelisk marking Havana's city limits with the adjacent city of Marianao. The obelisk honors the achievements of Cuban scientist Carlos J. Finlay, the discoverer of the cause of yellow fever, and takes the shape of a giant needle. The columned building in the background of several images is the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro," one of the hemisphere's oldest schools of art, founded in 1818.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 617
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of the interior of Celia Sánchez's el Vedado home where Fidel Castro frequently resided in the early years of the Revolution. Most frames feature a pair of boys. The blonde boy of smaller stature, who wears a T-shirt that reads "Havana Military Academy," is the son of Fidel Castro, named Fidel Castro Díaz Balart. Celia Sánchez appears in a printed blouse and white button earrings in several frames, alongside Fidel Castro and other unidentified bearded bodyguard (with his back to the camera) who appears in Print 60. Print also includes a set of nighttime pictures taken along the mall of El Prado. See also Prints 60 and 64.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May 1
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 618
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of the march of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and their Commander in Chief, Raúl Castro, at the May Day rally and parade held at the Plaza Cívica of Havana, May 1, 1960. See also Prints 6-24, and 65.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 619
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames show Fidel Castro, his son, Fidel Castro Díaz Balart, (in white T-shirt) and an unidentified boy with Celia Sánchez at her home in el Vedado. Images depict three fatigue-dressed bodyguards sitting on a couch, as well as a white-haired man in a business suit whose back is to the camera. There are two images taken from the balcony that show a boy and then a woman who are attempting to photograph the boys as they play with a radio on the balcony of the house. Middle and bottom frames show part of El Prado in downtown Havana, as well as a sign painted on a wall that has been hand-mounted in a park. The sign reads "¡Viva el primer aniversario de la Revolución Cubana! Partido Socialista Popular (Long live the first anniversary of the Cuban Revolution! Popular Socialist Party)." Bottom frames show a Cuban-Chinese taxi driver standing by his car in front of the headquarters of the Alianza Nueva Democracia China. See also Prints 58 and 64.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 620
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames show betters lined up at the race track in Havana's Casino Deportivo. Bottom frames show a wheel of fortune at the casino-bar of what appears to be the Havana Hilton. See also Prints 51, 52, 53, 55, 56 and 62.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 621
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames show part of a banner hanging from the balcony of a building that demands an end to U.S. aggression against Cuba, in particular, the ending of all bombings and air raids. At the time, it was increasingly common for small, unidentified aircraft to run sabotage and bombing raids from bases in Florida into Cuban territory. Beginning in the late fall of 1959, targeted sites included sugar mills and other facilities within the province of Havana. The second set of frames shows betters lined up at the race track in Havana's Casino Deportivo. The last three rows of frames depict foreign tourists gambling at a casino, probably located in the Hotel Nacional. See also Prints 51, 52, 53, 55, 56 and 61.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 622
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top row of frames shows Fidel Castro speaking on a television screen. The second and third rows of frames show two unidentified Cuban men standing before a counter with a framed poster of José Martí on the wall in the background. The fourth set of frames shows an unidentified man smoking at the entrance of the Havana Hilton Hotel. The final frame shows a militiaman frisking a man over a sink in a bathroom with another guard pointing a pistol into the air behind him. For more images of the man being searched, see Print 80.