From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
Undated, [1959 Nov?]
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 595
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top five rows of frames depict a performance of traditional African-Cuban dancing at the National Theatre. Bottom line of frames shows a student rally on the Escalinata (entrance steps) of the University of Havana. Along the speakers' platform a banner appears with the words "Mes del Recinto" (Month of the Campus). Probably taken in November of 1959 when the university was undergoing the first phase of revolutionary reforms that would initially purge all professors with a history of batistiano allegiance from the campus and eventually end the autonomy of the university from state intervention by the fall of the following year. For images of the University of Havana rally, see also Prints 31 and 38.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 November
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 596
Image Count:
1
Description:
Session of the 1st Congress of the Confederación de Trabajadores Cubanos [CTC], Cuba's largest umbrella syndicate of labor unions, held between November 18 and 25, 1959, in Havana. Approximately 3,000 workers' delegates attended the congress whose primary task was the election of a new governing board, free of the mujalistas, or allies of Eusebio Mujal, Batista's main representative who had previously controlled the unions. Fidel's inaugural address to the delegates is clearly documented in Print 30. These images appear to document Fidel Castro's subsequent address to the workers' delegates that occurred after a great deal of strife erupted over the election of a slate of candidates to the governing board that included former members of the mujalista-Batista alliance who were active Communists. Conflict culminated on the 23rd of November, one of the final days of the congress. Fidel returned to the congress in order to urge that the "unity" slate of candidates, including the Communists, as well as David Salvador, the candidate his government backed for the position of Secretary General, be elected. On stage, directly behind Fidel, sit a number of delegates clearly allied to the 26th of July Movement, as is clear from their use of the revolutionary militiamen's uniforms. Fidel Castro's speech to the delegates was also being televised, as is clear from the top three rows of frames. See also Print 30.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
[1959 Nov?], [1960 Feb?]
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 597
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames document a student rally on the Escalinata (entrance steps) of the University of Havana. Along the speakers' platform a banner appears with the words "Mes del Recinto" (Month of the Campus). Probably taken in November of 1959 when the university was undergoing the first phase of revolutionary reforms that would initially purge all professors with a history of batistiano allegiance from the campus and eventually end the autonomy of the university from state intervention by the fall of the following year. In frames 7 and 8, it is possible to make out the central figure of Fidel Castro as he addresses the crowd. Bottom frames show images of a car race held at the Ciudad Deportiva, probably taken in February of 1960 when St. George included similar images in a series of photographs taken forTime magazine that focused on the visit of a pair of honeymooners from New York and the apparent decline of international tourism in Cuba following the simultaneous visit of Soviet Premier Anastas Mikoyan. See also Prints 31, 36, 48; for other images of car racing at the Ciudad Deportiva, see Book VII.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 598
Image Count:
1
Description:
Unidentified Cuban man wearing a business suit and speaking on a street in Centro Habana with the man wearing glasses who appears in Prints 33, 78, 81, 82, and 86. See also Prints 78, 81, 82 and 86.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 April 30
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 562
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images showing bride Emma Castro and groom Victor Lomerdi Delgado in the midst of the wedding ceremony and Catholic mass, on a kneeler. To the side is her brother, Prime Minister Fidel Castro Ruz, and other government officials, including President Osvaldo Dorticós and Juan Almeida Bosque, chief of the Cuban Air Force at the time.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
[1960 Mar?]
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 599
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of a demonstration by members of Acción Católica, supported by various Catholic priests who stand at the margins of the demonstration held at Havana's Central Park around the statue of José Martí. These images were probably taken in March of 1960, following conflicts between Catholic-led student protests over the visit of Soviet Premier Anastas Mikoyan that February. See also Prints 34 and 41.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
[1960 Mar?]
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 600
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top images show a demonstration by members of Acción Católica, supported by various Catholic priests, at the Parque Central, probably taken in March of 1960, following conflicts between Catholic-led student protests over the visit of Soviet Premier Anastas Mikoyan that February. Bottom four rows of frames show images of the press conference held at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba in Havana with visiting French philosophers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. For more images of this Catholic-led demonstration, see Prints 34 and 40; for more images of the de Beauvoir-Sartre visit, see Prints 43, 44, 47, and 48.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February 5
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 601
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of the Soviet exposition held at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana and inaugurated on February 5, 1960, by Soviet Premier Anastas Mikoyan. For more images of this series, see Book VII.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 602
Image Count:
1
Description:
Press conference held at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba in Havana with visiting French philosophers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. Bottom frames show a crowd on El Prado outside a television studio that is seen next door to the Asociación Canaria de Cuba. A number of male, uniformed militiamen survey the crowd while another group of police, at least one of whom appears female, look on from one of the side walls of El Prado. See also Prints 44, 47 and 48.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 603
Image Count:
1
Description:
Close-ups of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir at the press conference held at the Hotel Nacional in the first days of their visit to Cuba. See also Prints 43, 47 and 48.