From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 37
Image Count:
3
Description:
Rebel unit with Fidel Castro as they pause on a mountain path to take a break from marching. Frames 145 and 146 show Fidel Castro sitting in the midst of a group on the ground. Frames 139 and 140 show rebels drinking fresh milk from a pail. In the cen...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 36
Image Count:
2
Description:
Part of a five-man firing squad as they shoot and execute an unidentified local peasant who confessed and was convicted, according to St. George, of rape and murder. The man wears a "captain's hat" and probably led a local gang of bandits. See also Pr...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 35
Image Count:
1
Description:
A duplicate image from Print 47 of Cresencio Pérez sitting with a group of guerrillas having a meal and drinking coffee. Oniria Gutiérrez appears in frames 107 and 108 as she cooks in the army kitchen and sits examining a pistol on the ground next to ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 34
Image Count:
2
Description:
First frame shows court-martial of a local peasant, possibly accused of being a double agent, near El Naranjo, Sierra Maestra. The succeeding frame shows a group of peasants brought to serve as witnesses at his trial. Final picture shows captured pris...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 33
Image Count:
1
Description:
Frames 46 and 47 show guerrilla Luis Crespo. Frames 44 and 45 show two guerrillas taking a break, apparently after bathing in a nearby river. One of the men combs the other's hair; in frame 44, a young adolescent boy guerrilla looks on with amusement....
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 32
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frame shows a local peasant, apparently still alive, whom the guerrillas have left tied to a tree overnight. The man is possibly asleep standing up, his hands and feet bound. The top frame shows a guerrilla riding a horse probably requisitioned fr...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 31
Image Count:
1
Description:
Final phase of a court-martial in which a peasant is accused and convicted by a revolutionary tribunal appointed by Fidel Castro and guarded by guerrilla forces. Here in the top frame, a guerrilla is seen untying the peasant's hands so that he can ren...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957 May
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 3
Image Count:
1
Description:
Frames 1 and 2 show a group of riflemen drilling with their rifles near El Hombrito. The two men in the center of the front row are Lte. Juan Ermus (also shown with photographer in Frame 4) and Lte. "El Negro" Pérez, whom St. George describes as one o...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 30
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of Padre Guillermo Sardiñas, an ordained Catholic priest, giving last rites to an unidentified man accused and convicted of treason by a five-person revolutionary tribunal appointed by Fidel Castro. The man is shown being prepared for execution...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 29
Image Count:
1
Description:
Two frames only. Left frame shows Efigenio Ameijeiras with unidentified guerrilla after frisking a suspicious local peasant (see Print 37), seen to the left, standing. In this frame, an unidentified guerrilla speaks to Ameijeiras while the latter take...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 28
Image Count:
1
Description:
Various images of guerrillas. Top frame shows men in defensive positions followed by two more frames of Fidel and his men engaged in target practice. Bottom frames show a guerrilla on a requisitioned horse, carrying a message to the rebel unit and fin...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 27
Image Count:
1
Description:
In the first frame, Fidel Castro, Juan Almeida Bosque and other unidentified guerrillas stand over the burial sites of a recently deceased man. The placing of two pairs of men's shoes in the right-hand corner of disturbed earth would appear to show at...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957 September
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 25
Image Count:
1
Description:
Several frames showing a group of guerrillas celebrating the seizure of jeep of the brand "Fargo" from a local farming enterprise. Nearby sits a bus, although it is not clear whether the rebels have also commandeered it. A large family of peasants sta...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 24
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro's guerrilla camp in the forests of the Sierra Maestra, near El Naranjo. Top frames show unidentified members of the civilian underground who have just arrived in the mountains. Third through sixth row of frames show unidentified man in a ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 23
Image Count:
1
Description:
Various images of unidentified guerrillas at look-out posts, aiming their rifles. The third row of frames shows Felipe Guerra Matos sitting in a hammock and eating from a bowl inside a large open-walled hut. Successive frames in the same row show an u...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 22
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top row of frames document the skinning of an enormous majá, a native, non-poisonous snake of Cuba. The guerrilla standing on the ground, wearing fatigues and skinning the majá in the foreground as a crowd of guerrillas begins to gather, is Julio Díaz...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 21
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top two rows of frames show a large group of unidentified guerrillas clapping and singing while two more guerrillas and an unidentified woman wearing civilian clothes and pants watch. The third row includes several images of a guerrilla drinking water...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957 May
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 2
Image Count:
1
Description:
Various images of the surviving group of 18 guerrillas under the command of Fidel Castro Ruz who had landed on the southern shore of Oriente province as part of an invading force of 82 men on December 2, 1956. Calling themselves the 26th of July Movem...
