From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 56
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro leading his guerrilla column on a march along a clearly marked footpath between two farm fields. In the second frame of the top row (no. 15), Fidel hands a blonde peasant boy a Toblerone chocolate bar, a standard provision distributed to the guerrillas through couriers in the revolutionary underground. Duplicate of Print 68.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 57
Image Count:
1
Description:
These frames document the guerrillas' capture of a bus, probably belonging to a local plantation or military post. Most of the frames show the guerrillas riding in the bus (rows 4-7). Top frames suggest that the bus and a truck were acquired after a mine or other explosive the guerrillas planted alongside the road exploded, damaging the truck and prompting any passengers inside to abandon the vehicle. The bus may have come along afterward, affecting the same result: unable to proceed, driver and passengers fled. Frames 27 and 28 of the third row appear to document the guerrillas' arrival and discovery of the two abandoned vehicles in the middle of the road. These events may have to do with the planting of explosives connected to a booby trap cable alongside the road depicted in Print 54. One of the passengers, an unidentified foreign journalist, possibly working for CBS, appears shirtless in Frame 39, riding with the guerrillas in the bus. The same man also appears interviewing Fidel and carrying a small movie camera in the bottom left-hand frame of Print 58. See also Prints 54 and 58.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 58
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top images show peasants and guerrillas gathered on the side of a peasant house; in the foreground of Frames 9-10 is an unidentified man, possibly a foreign journalist, wearing an elegant linen suit (with cigarette in fingers). Frames 17-19 show a guerrilla wearing a "mambí-style" hat, cleaning his rifle. Frames 21-27 depict an unidentified, overweight journalist, probably foreign, interviewing peasant recruits to the guerrilla cause. Frame 23 shows Manzanillo's chief courier, Felipe Guerra Matos, with a moustache and broken leg in cast. This picture and subsequent images were probably shot at a rebel field hospital. In frames 24-37, Haydee Santamaría and Celia Sánchez sit disposing of dirty, used cotton bandages by burning them. Folder contains two duplicate contact sheets; see also Prints 51, 53, 61 and 66.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 59
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top four rows of frames show Fidel Castro speaking animatedly with a foreign journalist (frames 23 and 24, back to camera), possibly working for CBS, from his bed in a guerrilla-controlled wooden peasant hut. Alongside him, lying on the bed, is a box of Cuban cigars. The fifth and sixth row of images show mainly shots of Fidel's column marching through farmland, as well as additional images of Fidel in profile. The foreign journalist is seen in the bottom row of frames, far left-hand frame of the print carrying a small movie camera and smiling at the photographer. See also Prints 56 and 59.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 60
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro speaking animatedly with an unidentified foreign journalist, possibly working for CBS, from his bed in a guerrilla-controlled wooden peasant hut. Alongside him, lying on the bed, is a box of Cuban cigars and a cup of Cuban-style espresso coffee. See also Prints 56 and 58.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 61
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames show a group of guerrillas standing on the porch of the wooden peasant hut. Remaining frames show Fidel Castro talking to a Cuban peasant landowner, possibly the owner of the hut and surrounding lands. Contains two copies of the same print.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 62
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of two overweight men dressed in civilian clothes, one of whom (wearing glasses and taking notes) appears to be a foreign journalist. The other man, wearing a hat, appears to be a Cuban working in the revolutionary underground. Fidel is lying on a bed while the journalist and the other unidentified man lean onto the top of a closed Singer sewing machine. See also Prints 51, 53 and 66.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 63
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro in various poses, examining a letter and smaller document as well as talking animatedly with unseen companions. Behind him in the second row of frames stands an unidentified mulatto peasant.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 64
Image Count:
1
Description:
Various images of unidentified guerrillas engaged in different tasks. Top frames show a man holding telescopic rifle as he does guard duty at the door of a peasant hut; a guerrilla wearing a cowboy hat and loading a rifle; a guerrilla jubilantly carrying a large native turkey. Second row shows unidentified older man wearing fatigues and engaged in conversation. The third row shows a black guerrilla unloading a bomb from the back of a horse and then carrying the unexploded bomb on his shoulder, probably recovered from Batista's air raids. The final row shows a guerrilla unit on the march through farmlands.