From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 March 6
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 273
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top four rows and the very bottom row show Fidel Castro, U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal, and Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Agramonte conversing in lounge chairs in a side room to the salon where Fidel held a press conference in Fidel Castro's villa in Cojímar on March 6, 1959. The fifth and sixth rows show Agramonte and Bonsal conferring alone at a long table in the room where members of the press would gather for the press conference; in frames 3-6 they are joined in conversation by Humberto Sorí Marín. See also Prints 19, 25, 26 and 28.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 March 6
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 274
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print shows Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Agramonte, Fidel Castro, and U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal conferring while seated in lounge chairs in a side room adjacent to the salon where Fidel Castro held a press conference held at Fidel Castro's personal villa in Cojímar on March 6, 1959. This was Fidel Castro and recently-appointed Bonsal's first face-to-face meeting although it was impromptu; Bonsal and Fidel Castro would not meet again formally for several months until September 1959. See also Prints 19, 25, 26 and 27.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 275
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print documents the presence of an arms dealer named Col. Hubert F. Julian in Havana. The subjects of this print seem unaware of the fact that they are being photographed. In his description for this print, St. George writes, "With war winds approaching, tourists are becoming scarce again in Cuba, and their places are taken by businesslike heralds of trouble: in the ornate hall of Havana's Nacional Hotel, devoid of tourists, Col. Hubert F. Julian, a "Reg. U.S. Arms Dealer" sits alone, accompanied only by a pair of bodyguards who came with him from Florida. Best known as the 'Black Eagle,' Col. Julian is not only a 'Reg. U.S. Arms dealer' he is the Latino revolution's surest harbinger and most faithful supplier. These days, traveling through Haiti, Santo Domingo, Cuba, Nicaragua, he sells everything from jet Vampires to machetes. Business is brisk. (From top down, first, fourth and sixth frame rows: shots with bodyguards, bottom row left.) Second row from top is Col. Julian cashing check at cashier's window of Hotel Nacional and joking with passing acquaintance (unidentified, obviously: she was from Virginia). Other frames of Colonel in Nacional lobby, largely irrelevant." See also Prints 30, 31, 32, 34 and 37.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 276
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print shows exiled Spanish General Alberto Bayo, who had fought with the Republican forces in Spain before their defeat at the hands of Franco's Fascists, waiting for a meeting with Cuba's first President of the Revolution, Manuel Urrutia, in the Presidential Palace of Havana. Bayo had helped Fidel Castro's guerrilla force with its training during their exile in Mexico between 1953 and 1956. In his notes for this print, St. George writes, "The dean of military exiles in Cuba-and the one with the biggest project-is Spanish General Alberto Bayo, who is working with anti-Franco exile groups to intensify the active resistance in Spain and overthrow Franco. General Bayo was the military professional who trained Castro's original invasion troop in Mexico, he has had a hand in several other Caribbean 'actions' and he is an elder statesman of revolution in the Caribbean. He is wearing the uniform of a Spanish Loyalist brigadier general, but to the many kids he's helped train he is always "El Viejo"-the old man. Bayo's work is already contributing to the growing anti-fascist resistance in Spain, and he has plans to set up a Castro-exile guerrilla force somewhere in the mountains near the French border. It is certain that whatever he tries, he won't lack for volunteers. The frames of this strip show the General waiting in the anteroom of Cuban President Manuel Urrutia; he had an hour-long talk with the President. Bayo (beard) is at right; other unidentified." See also Prints 29, 31, 32, 34, 35 and 37.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 277
Image Count:
1
Description:
Photograph strip of two frames, one showing a car at an intersection shot from above with a wax pencil-marked "x" on it and another showing a meeting between 3 men standing next to a car under a street light in a dark alley. This strip is pasted to the letterhead of Magnum, Photos, Inc. The paper bears the writing "OA37984" and "6/a." See also Prints 29, 30, 32, 34, 35 and 37.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 278
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images showing a group of four unidentified men, three standing on a staircase, one sitting on a bench below, as they converse in the interior courtyard of a motel. Frames 22-37 document the ascent of a group of five men, two wearing Cuban rebel army fatigues, up the stairs and into the first floor of the building. These photos may have formed a part of St. George's collection of images in this Contact Book documenting efforts at "exporting" revolutionary movements into similar Caribbean dictatorships during the early months of Castro's rule. See also Prints 29, 30, 31, 34, 35 and 37.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 279
Image Count:
1
Description:
This sheet features two sets of unrelated images. The top, second and bottom rows of frames show an office scene in which three men, one white, one darker-skinned and one black, all wearing business suits, complete and examine paperwork as a third man wearing a business suit (also black) stands with his back against the wall and two uniformed guards, each wearing different kinds of uniforms (one wearing a visible handgun), look on. A fourth by-stander in a light-colored jacket is visible in frame 45. The third row of images shows a blonde performer wearing an evening gown as she sings into a microphone at an outdoor club; a musician is shown sitting or standing next to her.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 280
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of Fidel Castro's speech at the Aula Magna of the University of Caracas in Venezuela. According to St. George, a highpoint in Fidel Castro's speech was the condemnation of the decades-long dictatorship of the U.S.-trained and U.S.-supported Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, as well as the announcement of his support for the creation of an invasion force of Dominican exiles, to be led by Cuban volunteers and financed abroad. In his description for the print, St. George writes, "Three weeks after his triumph in Cuba, Castro visited Caracas, Venezuela, where he lit the fire under the first (and still his favorite) of the brewing revolutions: the planned guerrilla invasion against dictatorial Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo's Dominican Republic. On this strip is shown the historic moment as Castro launched the campaign: having inserted an unexpected and fiery outburst against Trujillo into an address in the Aula Magna of Caracas University, he ends it by picking of his own campaign hat (he has exchanged it for a beret while in the aula, in deference to college tradition) placing it on the lectern and tossing a five-bolivar note into it (Frames marked 1 and 2). He accepts the first contribution to his newly established fund for a Dominican guerrilla army from rear admiral Wolfgang Lazrrazabal, Venezuela's own (if beardless) military hero. (Frames marked 3 and 4). Then Castro triumphantly introduces his candidate for Commander-in-Chief of the Dominican rebel army, Enrique Jiménez. Frames 4 and 5, Jiménez to Castro's left. At this writing (early April 1959), Jiménez, now a Comandante, is running a top-security, barbed-wire training camp for future Dominican guerrilla warriors on the outskirts of Santa Clara, in central Las Villas province. Except for being Castro's handpicked choice, he's a relative newcomer to the Dominican exile command, where envious compatriots have dubbed him 'Fidel's Dominican Gauleiter.'" In this print, frames that St. George designates as having "marked" show his own handwritten enumeration over the image in colored wax pencil. See also Prints 1-18, 37, and Contact Book III.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 281
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of a private meeting between two men, one of whom is apparently Colonel Hubert F. Julian, a U.S. registered arms dealer also known as "The Black Eagle." St. George reported that Julian was in Havana to broker arms deals as part of Fidel Castro's larger plan to train and finance invasion forces meant to topple the neighboring dictatorships of the Caribbean. See also Prints 29, 30, 31, 32, 35 and 37.