From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 512
Image Count:
1
Description:
Private lunch with Soviet Premier Anastas Mikoyan, probably taken on the same day that Castro and Mikoyan signed the first historic Soviet trade agreement with Cuba, worth $100,000,000. Sitting next to Mikoyan from left of the frame to the right are Fidel Castro, President Dorticós, the Soviet translator, and Antonio Nuñez Jiménez, Director of the Institute for Agrarian Reform. To Castro's left sits an unidentified woman. Security officials and waiters mill around in the background. See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66, 70, 71, 72, 74, 80, 83, 92, 93, 101, 102, 106, and Contact Book VIII.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 449
Image Count:
5
Description:
Contains three full sheets and two partial pages. Top and bottom rows of images on one page show boys at the newly inaugurated "Ciudad Escolar Libertad," a school for children of impoverished backgrounds that was founded on the grounds of the previous central military base of the island, Camp Columbia. Remaining images show repairs to the eighteenth-century El Morro Fortress at the mouth of Havana harbor. See also Prints 2, 9, 32, 33, 34, and 36.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 513
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of Soviet Premier Anastas Mikoyan, accompanied by a translator (standing to his right, frame 16) and bodyguards as he arrives at the Presidential Palace for a state reception during his February 1960 visit. Top row of frames 18-22 shows Mikoyan with his translator speaking to Fidel Castro and Minister of Education Armando Hart. The second row shows Mikoyan, his translator and members of his security detail chatting with President Osvaldo Dorticós while seated on a couch in the Palace, before the arrival of other officials and ministers. Frames 4-7 appear to show Fidel Castro as he leaves Celia Sánchez's apartment in el Vedado and is escorted to a waiting car. Frames 20-22 show Mikoyan in the company of two Cuban officers of the rebel army: the bearded and pony tailed man is Faustino Pérez; the other is unidentified. This print is an identical duplicate of Print 61. See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61-67, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 80, 83, 92, 93, 101, 102, 106, and Contact Book VIII.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 514
Image Count:
1
Description:
Mikoyan and Fidel Castro as they make their way to the buffet table at the Presidential Palace during a formal state reception held in honor of the Soviet Premier's visit. Two unidentified officials in civilian dress stand behind Fidel Castro: one is a tall, blond man with glasses who accompanied Che Guevara to receive Mikoyan at the airport (see Prints 62, 79) and the other is a dark-haired man who assisted the statesmen at the signing of the Soviet-Cuba trade agreement (depicted in Print 67). See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61-67, 69, 70, 72, 74, and Contact Book VIII.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 530
Image Count:
1
Description:
Anastas Mikoyan on a provincial excursion, possibly to Santa Clara province. Frames 18-21 show René Vallejo, director of the Institute for Agrarian Reform in Oriente Province, standing between two officials, one military and one civilian. Crowds of children and adults gather around the motorcade in frames 4-6. The middle row shows Fidel Castro and Mikoyan examining a map while surrounded by a large crowd.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 531
Image Count:
1
Description:
Unidentified wealthy Cuban businessman in his office, seen amidst several members of his staff in a general office area. This man may have been the subject of a story St. George did with another reporter. It is likely that the reporter has interviewed the businessman on the occasion of Mikoyan's visit, amidst speculation that the Revolution was already or soon to become "Communist." See also Prints 85, 86, 90 and 91.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 January-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 537
Image Count:
1
Description:
Phyllis Minoff, a New York honeymooner whose trip to Cuba St. George was covering forTime magazine. Mrs. Minoff visits a public school where children are shown wearing the new uniform of the Revolution. Second and third set of frames show an unidentified man (not her husband Marvin) drinking a coca-cola as children press to be included in the camera's frame. Bottom images show children involved in a playground tussle. For images of the Minoffs, see also Prints 1, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 37, 39, 41 and 42.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 452
Image Count:
3
Description:
Contains three sheets. Images of children on the playground at the newly constructed school, "Ciudad Libertad," on the former military base of Camp Columbia, Havana. Camp Columbia had been the site of the Sergeants' Revolt, led by Fulgencio Batista, against army superiors. This action, taken in favor of the revolutionary movement against the dictator Machado, made Batista an instant national hero until his rupture with Cuba's short-lived revolutionary government in 1933. Thereafter and until 1959, Camp Columbia had been the principal military operations and intelligence depot for the dictator Fulgencio Batista's national army. Consequently, the transformation of Camp Columbia into a place for the educational uplift of peasants acquired particular symbolic value after the Revolution. Ironically, as the images show, the system of education and cultural values instilled by school programs (such as daily assembly) were highly militarized. See also Prints 2, 6, 32, 33, 34, and 36.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 486-495
Image Count:
10
Description:
Latin American visitors and writers who participated in the first conference on literature hosted by the Cuban government and held in spring 1960. The conference was the work of Lunes, the literary supplement to Revolución, the official newspaper of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, as well as Vilma Espín, founder and president-for-life of the Federación de Mujeres Cubanas. See also Prints 5, 15, 23, 24, 28 and 55.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 528-529
Image Count:
2
Description:
Unidentified wealthy Cuban businessman in his office with a member of his staff seen answering the phone behind him. This man is being interviewed by another reporter while St. George takes his picture. It is likely that the reporter has interviewed the businessman on the occasion of Mikoyan's visit, amidst speculation that the Revolution was already or soon to become "Communist." There is a photograph of what appears to be a priest or member of the Catholic clergy on the table behind him (see Print 85 frames 22-24.) See also Prints 88, 90 and 91.