From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
Circa 1958
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 1
Image Count:
14
Description:
The images of guerrillas in Fidel Castro’s column are engaged in wartime activities and scenes of everyday life. The photographs show the preparation of hand-made bombs in a clandestine bomb shop run by a bearded veteran of the Spanish Civil War; gue...
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
1960 January
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 46, folder 13
Image Count:
4
Description:
Dating from the early months of 1960, these photographs were taken when St. George accompanied Fidel Castro and Antonio Nuñez Jiménez, both directors of Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria (INRA), as they made an inspection tour of recently national...
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
Circa 1959-1960
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 19
Image Count:
1
Description:
There is a close up image of Carlos Prío de Socarrás, former President of Cuba who was deposed by Batista’s March 1952 coup. Prío provided money for Fidel to mount his expedition to Cuba in 1956 from Mexico aboard the yacht Granma. Prío later retur...
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
1959 March 6
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 11
Image Count:
5
Description:
Fidel Castro and U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal had their first face-to-face meeting on March 6, 1959, at Castro's villa in Cojímar. These photographs document that event. In one image an unidentified rebel officer is standing between Bonsal and Ca...
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 46, folder 2
Image Count:
2
Description:
These photographs were taken during Fidel Castro’s two-week tour of the northeast United States on invitation of the National Press Club. One photograph shows him sitting in a New York City hotel surrounded by 5 women. The notation by St. George on t...
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
1960 September
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 46, Box 3
Image Count:
7
Description:
These photographs document Fidel Castro and his delegation’s September 1960 visit to New York City to attend a meeting at the United Nations where Fidel gave his famous speech announcing the upcoming Literacy Campaign of 1961. The Cuban delegates ult...
