From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May 1
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 624
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. Top frames show unidentified agricultural workers, probably taken at a state cooperative.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 625
Image Count:
1
Description:
Randomly organized images on the same print that deal with a number of different events and people. Top frames show Vilma Espín in a televised broadcast of a panel of women who included Loló de la Torriente Brau, a longtime femenina and journalist active since the 1920s and E. Lina Milanés. The second set of frames and very bottom set of frames depict betters at a pelea de gallos or cockfighting ring. Others show Fidel speaking on television. See also Prints 67 and 81.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 626
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of a televised panel of women leaders. Photographs center on Vilma Espín, leader of the underground resistance in Oriente after the 1957 assassination of Frank País during the anti-Batista war, wife of Raúl Castro and future founder of the Federación de Mujeres Cubanas, a mass organization introduced in 1961. Hidden outside the frame of the camera is Loló de la Torriente, a longtime feminist and respective journalist active since the 1920s whose name plate appears on the table next to E. Lina Milanés, a gray-haired woman sitting to the immediate right of Vilma Espín. The woman to the left of Vilma Espín remains unidentified. See also Prints 66 and 81.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 627
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of a young batistiano being guarded as he lies covered in a blanket on the backseat of the vehicle transporting him to his trial by a Revolutionary Tribunal in the Cabaña fortress of Havana. Bottom rows of frames show signs posted at the Western Union on Obispo Street in Old Havana encouraging customers not to cable money outside of the country as an act of solidarity with the Revolution and national development. Frames 9 and 10 show the steps outside the U.S. Embassy in Havana.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 628
Image Count:
1
Description:
Street scenes from an unidentified provincial city. Also included in the last row of frames are additional images of the side of a building in Havana from which a large banner hangs protesting U.S. sanctioned armed aggression and bombings of Cuba. See also Print 62.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May 1
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 565
Image Count:
1
Description:
Taken at the height of the afternoon heat, these images show participants in the May Day Parade of 1960 after the initial morning parade of revolutionary organizations, militias and the Revolutionary Armed Forces, but before the culminating address by Prime Minister Fidel Castro. The rally and parade took place in the Plaza Cívica of Havana.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 630
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames show a smartly dressed woman standing beside the elevators of what appears to be the second-floor lobby of a hotel, possibly the Havana Hilton. Frames in the second row of photographs show the interior of the Salon Charela, a bar and small restaurant in Old Havana. Bottom frames show women and men in a similar establishment, probably in Old Havana, but one whose primary function is prostitution and related activities. This second bar is shown in the fourth and fifth rows of frames. See also Print 72.