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 o...
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 un...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958 and 1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 742
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro is shown in top row of frames holding a small spy camera, probably belonging to Saint George. These images may have been taken at guerrilla headquarters in La Plata, in late 1958. Remaining images show Fidel Castro addressing a television...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 710-711
Image Count:
2
Description:
Images of Ernest Hemingway with Fidel Castro at Hemingway's fishing tournament held at the Marina Barlovento, now called the Marina Hemingway, in May 1960. Pictured as well is an unidentified U.S. celebrity of the period. See also Prints 20, 21, 22, 2...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 690
Image Count:
1
Description:
Frames 2-13 show possible evidence of sabotage carried out on nationalized foreign property, showing damaged metal sheeting on sides of building and billowing smoke, not all of it apparently rising from smokestacks in distance. Frames 13-24 depict a p...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 689
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of the recently nationalized Exxon oil refinery near Havana. Frames 3-21 appear to depict firefighters as they attempt to stop the spread of a fire in one of the refinery's buildings. Frames 22-31 appear to show the aftermath of this fire, like...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 688
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top row of images shows Fidel conversing privately with Ernest Hemingway at the Marina de Barlovento, where Hemingway hosted a fishing tournament in May of 1960. Row two shows a tiny number of tourists gathered poolside at unidentified hotel. Third ro...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 687
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top row of frames shows tourists on a pool deck largely devoid of tourists at unidentified hotel. Other frames show Havana's recently nationalized oil refineries, shot from a distance. Frames 5-10 show additional oil refineries on the northern shore o...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 686
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top row of frames shows a small group of foreign and Cuban officials gathered on the steps to the main entrance of Cuba's Presidential Palace. Bottom images show various vehicles at the largely abandoned Esso/Exxon refinery near the Bay of Havana, aft...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 685
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top two rows of frames show workers gathered around a Cuban flag raised on the pole of the headquarters of a U.S.-owned oil refinery, after being nationalized. Bottom four rows depict a reception line in the opulent home of the last U.S. Ambassador to...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 684
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of the nationalized refinery of Exxon Oil, showing a group of Cubans as they raise the Cuban flag over the headquarters of the refinery (where normally a U.S. flag would have flown). See also Prints 28, 29, 31, 36, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43 and 44.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 683
Image Count:
1
Description:
Exxon oil refinery, apparently depleted of all but one lone worker, in the days after nationalization, June 1960. Frames 23-25 show a small blonde boy, also pictured eating ice cream and swimming at the Hotel Presidente in Prints 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 1...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 682
Image Count:
1
Description:
Unidentified railroad depot showing that trains are completely at a standstill; port economy appears equally stagnant; abandoned Firestone plant (nationalized) and another corporate-like building. Frames 3-8 show an unidentified blonde boy eating ice ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 681
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top two rows depict smoke rising from smokestacks in the distance as a flatbed truck makes its way along the road away from a number of large, dilapidated structures. Frames 35-36 show several trucks in apparent need of repair; one reads "Ministerio d...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 680
Image Count:
1
Description:
Bottom three rows of images depict Fidel giving the same speech as shown in Print 32. Top rows of images depict the absence of foreign tourists and the decline of the industry due to the Cuban government's recent policies of nationalization and the ge...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 679
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top rows of images (frames 3-15) feature backlit photographs of musical group playing at the restaurant and bar La Terraza, in the Plaza of Arms, overlooking Havana harbor and facing the Fortaleza de la Cabaña. Frames 16 and 17 show miniature car raci...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 678
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of Shell Oil employees leaving the nationalized refinery and having their cars searched by members of the Cuban revolutionary police while television cameras and reporters record the event. See also Prints 28, 29, 31, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 677
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of mid-afternoon traffic jam on Havana's Malecón, directly in front of the Parque Maceo and near the Church of the Virgen of Carmen. Frames 26-28 of the second-to-last row depict St. George, the photographer, observing a group of workers repair...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 675
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of the Cuban revolutionary government's nationalization of the U.S.-owned oil refinery known as Esso in Cuba (Exxon in the United States), as well as Shell Oil in June 1960. These refineries were located near the Bay of Havana. Their nationaliz...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 674
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro shows off the fish captured and trophies he won at Hemingway's fishing tournament in May of 1960 and converses with the host, Ernest Hemingway. Frame 15 of Print 27 also shows Mary Hemingway, standing next to her husband, Ernest Hemingway...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 672-673
Image Count:
2
Description:
Images of Fidel Castro and Ernest Hemingway at the latter's May 1960 fishing tournament, held in Marina Barlovento, now known as Marina Hemingway, outside of Havana. Fidel Castro won all the principal fishing prizes on that day. See also Prints 20, 21...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 671
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames show San Rafael Boulevard, in Centro Habana, parade route for Unidad Femenina Revolucionaria, all-female militia, and other pro-government groups. Parade seems to have culminated in Central Park, before the statue to José Martí, a tradition...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 667
Image Count:
1
Description:
Frames 10-12 of the second row and images 3-9 of the fourth and fifth rows show an all-female militia called the Unidad Femenina Revolucionaria parading down San Rafael Boulevard in Centro Habana, towards Central Park where a number of citizens are ga...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 666
Image Count:
2
Description:
This folder encloses both a contact sheet and an empty envelope for holding negatives with a typed descriptive text. As confirmed by this text, images in the contact sheet show the aborted attempted landing of a U.S.-based Piper Apache aircraft, flown...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 658-663
Image Count:
6
Description:
Photographs of tourists cavorting at the swimming pool of the Hotel Presidente, located on the Avenida de los Presidentes (also known as "G" Street) in el Vedado, Havana, across the street from what is today Cuba's Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 653
Image Count:
1
Description:
Bottom frames of the sheet show Raúl Castro, the Chief of Cuba's Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias from October 1959 to the present, giving a speech on national television. Top half of the images show members of the Unidad Femenina Revolucionaria traini...