From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February 5
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 544-545
Image Count:
2
Description:
Televised press conference with Anastas Mikoyan and his Soviet translator, held the day before the announcement of a historic, new trade deal between the Soviet Union and Cuba. See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 80, 83, 92, 93 and 106.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 546-548
Image Count:
3
Description:
Fidel Castro's televised presentation on the merits of the new $100,000,000 trade agreement signed with the Soviet Union earlier that week. Fidel is shown before the maps and charts that he brought along to illustrate the advantages the Soviets offered Cuba. The name of the television program was "Ante la prensa". See also Prints 104, 105, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111 and 112.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 486-495
Image Count:
10
Description:
Latin American visitors and writers who participated in the first conference on literature hosted by the Cuban government and held in spring 1960. The conference was the work of Lunes, the literary supplement to Revolución, the official newspaper of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, as well as Vilma Espín, founder and president-for-life of the Federación de Mujeres Cubanas. See also Prints 5, 15, 23, 24, 28 and 55.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 528-529
Image Count:
2
Description:
Unidentified wealthy Cuban businessman in his office with a member of his staff seen answering the phone behind him. This man is being interviewed by another reporter while St. George takes his picture. It is likely that the reporter has interviewed the businessman on the occasion of Mikoyan's visit, amidst speculation that the Revolution was already or soon to become "Communist." There is a photograph of what appears to be a priest or member of the Catholic clergy on the table behind him (see Print 85 frames 22-24.) See also Prints 88, 90 and 91.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 533-534
Image Count:
2
Description:
Unidentified wealthy Cuban businessman in his office, seen amidst several members of his staff in a general office area. This man may have been the subject of a story St. George did with another reporter. It is likely that the reporter has interviewed the businessman on the occasion of Mikoyan's visit, amidst speculation that the Revolution was already or soon to become "Communist." See also Prints 85, 86 and 88.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May 1
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 570
Image Count:
2
Description:
Top frames of this print show President Osvaldo Dorticós, Prime Minister Fidel Castro and an unidentified Cuban official also dressed in army fatigues as they observe the May Day parade of military and popular militias before the national monument to José Martí at whose base they stand. Like these officials, a woman from the crowd is shown wearing the signature "guajiro" or traditional Cuban peasant hat that became a trademark of the early years of the Revolution and was widely distributed for mass rallies. In the second set of frames, the popular peasant militia is pictured in uniforms that include this hat while another militia, possibly a workers' brigade, is shown parading in black or dark-colored boinas, or berets. Final frames show Fidel Castro at a later point in the day, around dusk, when he delivered an address to the assembly. In the two last frames of the print, a white dove is shown perched on the podium, to the left of Fidel. The use of white doves to inaugurate Fidel's speeches became common after the spectacularly positive effect that the release of several trained white doves had on the Cuban people at Fidel's first victorious address to the Cuban people at Camp Columbia on January 8, 1959. See also Print 15.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May 1
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 571
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro addressing the assembled crowds at the May Day rally on May 1, 1960, held at the Plaza Cívica in Havana. These images were taken during the latter hours of Fidel's speech, long after the sun had set and night fallen.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May 1
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 572
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of Fidel Castro addressing the assembled crowds at the May Day rally on May 1, 1960, held at the Plaza Cívica in Havana. The frames in the top half of the print are out of chronological order in that they were taken during the latter part of Fidel's speech when night had already fallen; the bottom half of the print shows Fidel speaking at dusk, when he began his address.
