From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 69
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 55.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 7
Image Count:
3
Description:
Frame 1 shows Ernesto "Che" Guevara seated with Manuel Fajardo and Juan Almeida Bosque behind him (left to right). Frames 2 and 3 show Luis "El Guajiro" Crespo standing in profile, by tree, Ciro Redondo, Manuel Fajardo (with large pack) and Che Guevara (seated). Frames 4-7 show Fidel Castro.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 8
Image Count:
1
Description:
Frames 1-2 show the photographer, Andrew St. George. Frames 3-4 show a group of unidentified peasant recruits holding peeled sugar cane stalks and weapons. Sitting at the far left in leather jacket is Victor Boronat, a member of the underground and rebel recruit from Manzanillo, Oriente. Frames 5-6 show Boronat playing guitar for a group of peasant recruits. Directly in front of him with curly hair and beard is Julio Díaz. Man next to him in a black beret is unidentified.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 80
Image Count:
1
Description:
Between El Corojo and Santiago, rebels move down to sea: a strategic breakthrough. Shown here are rebel activities in area under Cdte. Rene de los Santos' command: vehicle checks (frames 19-25); checkpoint has jeep, rear guards (frames 26-29); captured vehicles are repaired in Caballo Loco's service station. See also Prints 3 and 5.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 81
Image Count:
1
Description:
A key rebel rear-area command post: the Seccion del Café (note flag on frames 13-14) under Capt. Ernesto Alona Sabas (shown on phone in frame 12). This rebel department supervised coffee harvests as far as rebel authority reached and collected taxes: it was one of the guerrilla army's earliest systematic governmental functions. Other key personalities are Cdte. Luis "El Guajiro" Crespo (frames 5-6); the seldom-photographed Cdte. Calixto Garcia (frames 28-30): Cdte. Garcia is officer with sombrero and gunbelt standing to left of weapons carrier; and Capt. Waldo Gonzalez Roig (frame 16). Note officer on frame 18 (beret) is one of rebel army's three principal surgeons: unidentified here.