From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 511
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of Soviet Vice Premier Anastas Mikoyan and Prime Minister Fidel Castro as they leave the opulent, expropriated mansion that became the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (MINREX) on Havana's Avenida de los Presidentes. Castro and Mikoyan had just signed the Soviet Union's first historic trade package with Cuba, representing $100,000,000 in trade. See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66, 69, 70, 71, 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 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 February
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 515
Image Count:
1
Description:
Mikoyan's arrival at the state reception at the Presidential Palace where he is shown standing with the Minister of Foreign Relations, Raúl Roa, (frames 4 and 5), as well as his hosts, President Dorticós and the First Lady María Cristina (frames 6-14). Frame 18 shows Antonio Nuñez Jiménez bending deeply as he greets Mikoyan while frames 7-9 and 15 show Mikoyan speaking to well-dressed members of Cuba's elite. See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 64, 63, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 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
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 516
Image Count:
1
Description:
Formal state reception held at the Presidential Palace in honor of Soviet Premier Anastas Mikoyan. The top and third rows of frames show Fidel Castro and Mikoyan in the center of a sea of guests as they drink and converse with unidentified others present. Prints 29 and 30 show Raúl Chibás and Humberto Sorí Marín (both in elegant military dress), longtime leaders of the 26th of the July Movement and key figures in the pre-1959 progressive political culture of the middle class. Frames 33-35 of the bottom row show two Cuban security agents watching events below from an upstairs balcony. See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 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 5
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 517
Image Count:
1
Description:
Mikoyan deposits a floral arrangement of the Soviet-style hammer and sickle dominating a globe-like decoration at the foot of the monument to José Martí in Havana's Central Park. Subsequent frames show Mikoyan as he prepares for and delivers a short speech to his Cuban audience with his personal translator at his side. The event took place minutes before Mikoyan's formal inauguration of the Soviet Expo at the Museum of Fine Arts a few blocks away. See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 80, 83, 92, 93, 101, 102, 106, and Contact Book VIII; for images related to Mikoyan's floral offering and related anti-Soviet student protest, see Prints 76, 77, 78, 81, 95, 96 and 98.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 518
Image Count:
1
Description:
President Osvaldo Dorticós and Anastas Mikoyan conversing inside Havana's airport terminal only minutes after Mikoyan's arrival in Cuba. See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 80, 83, 92, 93, 101, 102, 106, and Contact Book VIII.