From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 105
Image Count:
1
Description:
Frames 25-28 show Cdte. Luis "El Guajiro" Crespo at his bomb shop (see also Prints 14 and 15.) Frames 17-20: Celia Sanchez. Frames 9-14: This is Fidel Castro's place of work in headquarters hut where he had only desk ever used by Fidel during two-year insurgency. Three framed photos overhead show his son, Fidelito. Frame 16: Orlando Pupo, jefe de escolta. Frames 23-24 show two important adjuncts to headquarters life: supply and equipment bearers. These men are bringing electrical gear used to repair radio gear and fuse homemade bombs. Frames 5-8: one of the items manufactured from electrical supplies brought in by runners is this little cheeseglass-detonator known as "Che's jam jar," either because Che invented it or because it was developed at bomb shop in Che's column. It is an impact-squeeze detonator that will activate a concealed road mine or a large hand-hurled bomb.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 107
Image Count:
1
Description:
Andrew St. George at wayside halt while on the march among rebel outposts in the vicinity of Puerto Boniato. Photographer's travel aide, Lt. Hanibal Hidalgo, is shown on frames 27-30. Rebel organizer Victor Boronat is shown playing guitar on frames 2-3.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 108
Image Count:
1
Description:
Rebel platoon on march among heights controlling the carretera nacional above El Cobre sanctuary (frames 5-8). Unit commander Capt. Rigoberto Ramirez is shown in center of frame 14 (long beard, field cap, cartridge belt). Suspicious wayfarer, intercepted earlier by rebel platoon and interrogated to no avail, is threatened by execution (frames 12-13). Suspect falls in fright when rifle is fired over his head, and Capt. Ramirez menaces him with pistol, firing past his ear. But suspect was not otherwise harmed and released later same day. The threat of summary execution was rebel's only means of coercing information from suspects.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 109
Image Count:
1
Description:
Rebel patrols combing approach area to Siboney, overlooking Santiago. Column commander Cdte. Rene de los Santos is shown in frames 22-23: smiling officer in center. When these pictures were taken, the landscape was of key significance, for it indicated decisive rebel breakthrough towards Santiago in early fall of 1958.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 73
Image Count:
1
Description:
The first frames here (6-12) depict, much as Print 2 does, an advanced perimeter rebel post near Santiago, this one commanded by Cdte. Rene de los Santos (Frame 7, center, long raincoat) operating a radio transmission facility (RR12, that is Radio Rebelde Doce) and a relay point for couriers, supply runners, forward observation agents (i.e. spies). Frame 9 depicts such a function: a confidential personality en route to rebel headquarters (an operative or perhaps a minor local community leader committed to cooperation with the guerrillas) is passed through in a jeep blanketed with a large plastic shower curtain to keep the passenger invisible. Even the frames showing the stuck truck are illustrative: the favorite sport of rebel advance units was the acquisition and operation of motor transport, an enterprise they often attacked with more enthusiasm than expertise. Other frames show the photographer on the shore near the RR12 shortwave shack.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 110
Image Count:
1
Description:
These shots were made in the early fall of 1958 to document astonishing rebel advances, and government military withdrawals. A guerrilla patrol is shown here playing jukebox at road-side halt on the march above Puerto Boniato. For Fidel's faithful, junglebound for eighteen months, these were miraculous portents of the unmistakably approaching victory over the tottering Batista forces.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 111
Image Count:
1
Description:
Interrogation of suspect (see also Print 38). Capt. Rigoberto Ramirez's rebel troop unit on the march above El Cobre. They come under fire from medium mortar, apparently fired by government unit stationed downhill near El Cobre: phosphorus shells ignite savannah and patrol dashes for cover.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 112
Image Count:
1
Description:
These frames show a small-unit, fast-moving rebel attack on El Cobre. Frames 4-13: Capt. Rigoberto Ramirez sights target down in valley at nightfall. Note white towers of El Cobre sanctuary, famous Cuban landmark, visible in distance. Frames 14-15 show rebel soldiers hastily requisitioning supplies in tiny Chinese grocery on El Cobre's outskirts. Rest of frames show Ramirez's patrol attacking and burning attack target: army supply dump outside El Cobre.