From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 1
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 156-157
Image Count:
2
Description:
Taken on January 1, 1959, and stamped January 7, 1959, on the reverse side, these prints document the first victory speech given by Fidel Castro upon the fall and flight from Cuba of the dictator Fulgencio Batista. Having taken the reins of power in t...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 180-181
Image Count:
2
Description:
These prints show Raúl Castro, surrounded by guerrillas, as he delivers his first national radio address after the fall of Batista; the address is apparently being televised from Oriente's central broadcasting station, CMKC, Radio Oriente. See also Pr...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 186-189
Image Count:
4
Description:
These prints all relate to one of the first press conferences given by the revolutionary alliance of guerrillas, civilian leaders and members of the Catholic hierarchy at the Havana Hilton shortly after Fidel's victorious entrance into Havana. Print 6...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 191-192
Image Count:
2
Description:
These prints document Fidel Castro's speech in an outside auditorium, probably in the city of Santa Clara, one of his last stops on the way to declaring a rebel victory in Havana. Frames 32-26 show closeup shots of a stage that is draped by the Cuban ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 13
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 194-200
Image Count:
10
Description:
These prints feature incredible panoramic shots of Fidel's speech at a rally to denounce United States officials and press for criticizing the trials and denouncing the executions of former officials, police and intelligence agents of the fallen dicta...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 201-205
Image Count:
5
Description:
These prints document Fidel Castro's record five-hour press conference for foreign reporters participating in "Operation Truth" in the ballroom of a Havana hotel. "Operation Truth" represented Fidel Castro and the revolutionary government's response t...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 14
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 206-207
Image Count:
2
Description:
Overview shots of the public trials of Batistiano officials held in Havana's National Stadium. This trial in particular was held on January 14, 1959, before 18,000 spectators and members of the international press corps. The man tried was Captain Jesú...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 14
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 208-209
Image Count:
2
Description:
Captain Jesús Sosa Blanco, commander of Batista's military garrison in Holguín, stands handcuffed before his accusers in public trial and attempts to defend himself before the microphone. Sosa Blanco famously asked for clemency while ridiculing the tr...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 14
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 215-216
Image Count:
2
Description:
These prints focus exclusively on family members of the victims of Batista's state terror as they testify against Captain Jesús Sosa Blanco at his internationally televised public trial held on January 14, 1959, in Havana's Stadium. The trial formed p...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 23-27
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 217-239
Image Count:
23
Description:
Fidel Castro's trip to Venezuela. Castro had been invited by Rear-Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal, former president of the governing junta that had taken power in 1958 after the overthrow of the dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez. The Venezuelans wanted Fidel ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 March 6
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 265
Image Count:
1
Description:
Second and third rows of images are unrelated to the rest of the print and show members of the guerrilla army guarding and posing on the grounds of the Hotel Nacional in Havana where the photographer St. George was most likely staying. Other images de...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 March 6
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 271
Image Count:
1
Description:
The top five rows of frames feature Fidel Castro and U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal in their first face-to-face meeting held on March 6, 1959, at Castro's villa in Cojímar. The man standing in the background between Castro and Bonsal is an unidentif...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 March 6
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 272
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top four rows of frames show Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Agramonte, Fidel Castro, and U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal conferring while seated in lounge chairs in a side room adjacent to the salon where Fidel Castro held a press conference in his v...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 March 6
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 273
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top four rows and the very bottom row show Fidel Castro, U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal, and Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Agramonte conversing in lounge chairs in a side room to the salon where Fidel held a press conference in Fidel Castro's villa...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 March 6
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 274
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print shows Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Agramonte, Fidel Castro, and U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal conferring while seated in lounge chairs in a side room adjacent to the salon where Fidel Castro held a press conference held at Fidel Castro...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 275
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print documents the presence of an arms dealer named Col. Hubert F. Julian in Havana. The subjects of this print seem unaware of the fact that they are being photographed. In his description for this print, St. George writes, "With war winds appr...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 276
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print shows exiled Spanish General Alberto Bayo, who had fought with the Republican forces in Spain before their defeat at the hands of Franco's Fascists, waiting for a meeting with Cuba's first President of the Revolution, Manuel Urrutia, in the...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 277
Image Count:
1
Description:
Photograph strip of two frames, one showing a car at an intersection shot from above with a wax pencil-marked "x" on it and another showing a meeting between 3 men standing next to a car under a street light in a dark alley. This strip is pasted to th...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 278
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images showing a group of four unidentified men, three standing on a staircase, one sitting on a bench below, as they converse in the interior courtyard of a motel. Frames 22-37 document the ascent of a group of five men, two wearing Cuban rebel army ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 279
Image Count:
1
Description:
This sheet features two sets of unrelated images. The top, second and bottom rows of frames show an office scene in which three men, one white, one darker-skinned and one black, all wearing business suits, complete and examine paperwork as a third man...
