From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958, 1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 746
Image Count:
1
Description:
Close-up images of Fidel Castro, a peasant boy (frame 31, row 1), a young guerrilla (who appears in profile, frame 30, row 1), an unidentified guerrilla with a streaked (white or blonde) beard, taken in what appears to be La Plata, guerrilla headquarters in the Sierra Maestra, probably during the last weeks of 1958. Bottom two rows of images depict Fidel Castro greeting Herbert Matthews of the New York Times and his wife Nancie. Standing behind Fidel in frames 33-36 of the second to last row is Celia Sánchez. In the final row, Celia Sánchez can be seen standing next to Nancie (the shorter, older woman wearing glasses). These figures are flanked by a large number of unidentified guerrillas. Journalists also appear documenting the encounter. See also Prints 30, 31 and 32.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958, 1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 746
Image Count:
1
Description:
Close-up images of Fidel Castro, a peasant boy (frame 31, row 1), a young guerrilla (who appears in profile, frame 30, row 1), an unidentified guerrilla with a streaked (white or blonde) beard, taken in what appears to be La Plata, guerrilla headquarters in the Sierra Maestra, probably during the last weeks of 1958. Bottom two rows of images depict Fidel Castro greeting Herbert Matthews of the New York Times and his wife Nancie. Standing behind Fidel in frames 33-36 of the second to last row is Celia Sánchez. In the final row, Celia Sánchez can be seen standing next to Nancie (the shorter, older woman wearing glasses). These figures are flanked by a large number of unidentified guerrillas. Journalists also appear documenting the encounter. See also Prints 30, 31 and 32.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 747
Image Count:
1
Description:
Two sets of apparently unrelated images. The top four rows of images show a massive Catholic religious procession in which the image of Jesus Christ is carried on a flowered litter through the streets of an unidentified provincial city, possibly Santa Clara. The bottom two rows of images show Faure Chomón Mediavilla, a former leader of the Directorio Revolucionario, an organization of university students that together with the Organización Auténtica, carried out a failed assault on the Presidential Palace on March 13, 1957, for the sole purpose of assassinating the dictator Fulgencio Batista. After the failure of the plan and the arrest or killing without trial of most of its participants, Chomón joined others in founding and directing the operations of a second guerrilla front in the Escambray mountains of Santa Clara province for the remainder of the war. Chomón remains a central figure in Cuba's Castro-led government. Here, Chomón is making a televised appearance in which he responds to the questions of two unidentified journalists (seated to his right), also serving as hosts.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 748
Image Count:
1
Description:
Two sets of apparently unrelated images. Top rows show Faure Chomón and unidentified journalists on the set of a televised news show. Bottom three rows of images show a large seated audience in which the chairs in the foreground are all occupied by unidentified black and mulatto Cuban men, as well as one young black adolescent. The second-to-last row of images includes a shot of a member of the Revolutionary National Police standing in the doorway inside the same building in which the audience appears sitting, together with a woman holding a baby and a man wearing a suit whose back is to the camera. See also Print 35.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 749
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top three rows show a performance of a dance troupe visiting Cuba from the Soviet Bloc in June of 1960. Bottom three rows show Fidel Castro addressing the public in a televised speech, made in 1960. Before him sits a small plaque announcing the name of a new broadcast chain called "FIEL" (or "Faithful"). See also Prints 32, 38 and 50.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960, [1959?]
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 750
Image Count:
1
Description:
Two unrelated sets of images appear in this print. Top three rows show Fidel Castro addressing the public in a televised speech, made in 1960. Before him sits a small plaque announcing the name of a new broadcast chain called "FIEL" (or "Faithful"). Although folder is marked "June 1960," it is unlikely that the bottom three rows of images were taken then because they include David Salvador, the Secretary General of the Confederación de Trabajadores Cubanos [CTC], Cuba's largest labor union, who was publicly disgraced as a counterrevolutionary and accused of corruption after he criticized the revolutionary government's efforts to control the labor union's decision and governing body in April of 1960. Here he is shown alongside Fidel Castro and others, an impossibility following that process. Bottom three rows feature images of participants and worker delegates at what appears to be the inauguration of the congress of the CTC, held in Havana in November of 1959. Frames 22-26 feature Violeta Casals, a radio personality who lent her voice to Radio Rebelde, Cuba's clandestine radio program before the triumph of revolutionary forces against Batista in January of 1959. Frames 12-13 in the bottom row of images show Fidel Castro consulting with Osmani Cienfuegos; David Salvador sits at his side taking notes. Frames 14 and 15 feature an unidentified man sitting with the revolutionary leadership at the head table, clapping. Frame 16 shows Salvador with an unidentified man wearing a militia uniform, beret rolled under a shoulder epaulet, at his side. See also Contact Book VIII; Prints 32, 37 and 39.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
[1959?], 1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 751
Image Count:
1
Description:
Although folder reads "June of 1960," it is unlikely that this date applies to images in the top four rows of the print. These images depict David Salvador (top row) with unidentified militiaman at his side, apparently attending the congress of the CTC in Havana, November 1959. Frame 21 shows Violeta Casals, a radio personality who lent her voice to Radio Rebelde, Cuba's clandestine radio program before the triumph of revolutionary forces against Batista in January of 1959. The third row of images shows worker delegates cheering in response to a speaker whose identity is unclear, images of the same unidentified man who is shown clapping in Print 38 and images of Fidel Castro consulting with David Salvador. Bottom frames depict the performance of a visiting Soviet Bloc dance troupe to Havana, taken several months later in the spring of 1960. See also Contact Book VIII; Prints 38, 50.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 752
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print, together with Print 41, features scenes from Fidel Castro's triumphant entrance into Havana after a seven-day caravan by car, helicopter and plane that stopped in every major city and town from Oriente to the capital. Frames 11-12, 13-15 show St. George aboard the military aircraft that carried Fidel for the final leg of the journey and his arrival at a military base in Havana (frames 16-19; 19-24). Frame 25 shows Fidel as he approaches the Presidential Palace and his arm around his shoulders, consults with a fellow unidentified guerrilla. Frames 27-29 show him making his way on foot through the streets of Havana and frames 30-31 show his arrival at the Havana Hilton, which he would designate his personal headquarters for the first two months or more of the Revolution. See also Prints 41 and 44.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 753
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top row of frames shows a massive crowd gathering in a large plaza to hear Fidel Castro speak. The second row and final row of frames show Fidel Castro's entourage enjoying a meal and conversing in backrooms at the Havana Hilton. Frames 33-37 of the third row show Fidel Castro giving a nighttime address, probably at Camp Columbia, January 8, 1959, his first victory speech to the nation. See also Print 40, 44.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 754
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top images show a rearview of the entrance of Fidel Castro's triumphant caravan into a provincial city as he made his way to Havana in the first week of 1959. Bottom images depict Fidel Castro leading a curious crowd, guerrilla escorts and reporters on a tour of the grounds of Fulgencio Batista's lavish estate, known as "Kuquines," in Siboney, an exclusive neighborhood on the outskirts of Havana, in January of 1959. See also Print 43.
