From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 178
Image Count:
1
Description:
Frames 4 through 13 of this print show Roberto Agramonte, the Revolution's first Minister of Foreign Relations, meetings with other Cuban men, possibly advisors and new government officials, as they gather in a home, converse and discuss documents. Frames 14-23 appear to have been taken as St. George accompanied Agramonte to the airport and feature a number of "portrait shots" of unidentified passengers, a pilot (frames 14-15), reporters and at least one rebel (frame 16-17). Frames 19-20 show Agramonte as he boards the plane.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 179
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images taken inside an aircraft after dark. None of the passengers is identified. Frame 4 shows a man wearing the uniform of a Batista officer speaking to another man, probably an American, wearing a plain white shirt.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 182
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print shows Raúl Castro, surrounded by guerrillas, as he delivers his first national radio address after the fall of Batista; the address is apparently being televised from Oriente's central broadcasting station, CMKC, Radio Oriente. Frames 35 and 36 show Raúl holding a photograph of a masked man with a rifle and cowboy hat up to the audience; frame 37 shows him opening what appears to be a scrapbook. See also Prints 55, 56, 58 and 59.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 183
Image Count:
1
Description:
With the exception of frame 5, all images on this print show Raúl Castro, surrounded by guerrillas, as he delivers his first national radio address after the fall of Batista; the address is apparently being televised from Oriente's central broadcasting station, CMKC, Radio Oriente. Frame 5 in the top row shows a woman whose purse is being checked by a rebel guard at the entrance to a prison. See also Prints 55, 56, 57 and 59.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 184
Image Count:
1
Description:
Frames 15-32 of this print show Raúl Castro, surrounded by guerrillas, as he delivers his first national radio address after the fall of Batista; the address is apparently being televised from Oriente's central broadcasting station, CMKC, Radio Oriente. Frames 3-4, 8-9, 11-14 convey various scenes from inside a prison that is still under the watch of two Batista officials (seen keeping watch at a table in frames 8-9). Frames 5-7 show the street outside the prison where a jeep is parked and hundreds of people are gathering. See also Prints 55, 56, 57 and 58.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 185
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel grants an interview to an unidentified United States reporter whose back is to the camera. This picture was likely taken on January 9, 1959, the day after Fidel's victory speech to the nation, when he and his entourage installed themselves at the Havana Hilton.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 190
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print shows the context of popular fervor in which Fidel is speaking as a massive crowd floods the street in front of him. In frame 3, St. George has marked the figure of Fidel with a handwritten arrow made with a blue pen. These images appear to show the city of Santa Clara and were probably taken on one of the last stops Fidel would make as he and his motorcade made their way to Havana for the declaration of the rebel victory.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 13
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 193
Image Count:
1
Description:
Scenes of anti-impunity demonstrations protesting United States criticism of trials of Batista officials and politicians allied to the Batista regime. Frames 17 and 22-34 show demonstrators flooding El Prado (Havana's main colonial and national-era thoroughfare) and extending all the way down to the Malecón, directly in front of the former Presidential Palace. Frames 10-11 show demonstrators in front of the Museo Nacional de Arte (now Museo de Bellas Artes, Colección Cubana) and frames 18-21 show demonstrators packing the street in front of the Corona cigar factory. Signs in frames 12, 25 and 26 held by different demonstrators read "Castigo a los culpables." Signs in frames 29-30 are written for a United States audience, saying "Justice-Mister-Cuba." Frames 35-36 show a red cross worker coming to aid a woman demonstrator who has fainted from the heat and crowds. See also Prints 69-75.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958 July
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 131
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print shows United States hostages held by Raúl Castro's forces in the liberated zone created by his recently opened Second Front "Frank País," preparing to be released. The hostages were taken as part of a defensive strategy developed in June 1958 when evidence emerged that the United States was continuing to ship military supplies (such as napalm) to Batista's air force through Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, despite the fact that the United States had declared an official embargo on further arms shipments in March of that year. In May, Batista's air force flew over one hundred flights that bombed and attacked the civilian population in the mountains that offered aid to the rebels. The hostage (shown shaving in frames 5-7) appears to be one of the United States company employees taken hostage, rather than a marine. The twenty-eight marines captured were being held elsewhere. See also Prints 1-5, 7, and 8.