From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 6
Image Count:
4
Description:
The images in this folder focus on Raúl Castro. In an up-close photograph, he is smiling for the camera while apparently giving a press conference in the early days of January 1959. On the wall behind him appears a list of radio stations broadcastin...
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 46, folder 9
Image Count:
4
Description:
These images are of young school boys during morning assembly at the newly constructed school at the former Moncada military barracks in Oriente. It was at this barracks that Fidel’s ill-prepared armed force attacked on the 26th of July 1953, resulti...
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
1960 February
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 46, folder 5
Image Count:
6
Description:
These images document the visit of Vice Premier Anastas Mikoyan to Cuba in February 1960. Ostensibly, Mikoyan was there to inaugurate the traveling exhibit of Soviet culture and products that would be held at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Havana. Als...
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 46, folder 12
Image Count:
2
Description:
In this series of photographs St. George appears to document the surge in security measures taken by the Cuban government in 1960 as it mobilized to defend against the U.S. invasion at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961. The photographs show snipers poste...
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
1959 October 2
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 13
Image Count:
2
Description:
The photographs document U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal addressing a convention of the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) delegates in Habana’s Blanquita Theatre on October 21, 1959. The convention was sponsored entirely by the revolutionary ...
