From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 67
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of two overweight men dressed in civilian clothes, one of whom (wearing glasses and taking notes) appears to be a foreign journalist. The other man, wearing a hat, appears to be a Cuban working in the revolutionary underground. Fidel is lying o...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 68
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames in row one show Fidel Castro from a look-out point in the Sierra Maestra. The last frame in this row shows a coffee farm (with drying beds to the left, behind farm house) in which both rebels and peasants can be seen. The rebels imposed a t...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 69
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro leading his guerrilla column on a march along a clearly marked footpath between two farm fields. In the second frame of the top row (no. 15), Fidel hands a blonde peasant boy a Toblerone chocolate bar, a standard provision distributed to ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 7
Image Count:
3
Description:
Frame 1 shows Ernesto "Che" Guevara seated with Manuel Fajardo and Juan Almeida Bosque behind him (left to right). Frames 2 and 3 show Luis "El Guajiro" Crespo standing in profile, by tree, Ciro Redondo, Manuel Fajardo (with large pack) and Che Guevar...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 8
Image Count:
1
Description:
Frames 1-2 show the photographer, Andrew St. George. Frames 3-4 show a group of unidentified peasant recruits holding peeled sugar cane stalks and weapons. Sitting at the far left in leather jacket is Victor Boronat, a member of the underground and re...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 80
Image Count:
1
Description:
Between El Corojo and Santiago, rebels move down to sea: a strategic breakthrough. Shown here are rebel activities in area under Cdte. Rene de los Santos' command: vehicle checks (frames 19-25); checkpoint has jeep, rear guards (frames 26-29); capture...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 81
Image Count:
1
Description:
A key rebel rear-area command post: the Seccion del Café (note flag on frames 13-14) under Capt. Ernesto Alona Sabas (shown on phone in frame 12). This rebel department supervised coffee harvests as far as rebel authority reached and collected taxes: ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 82
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top three rows of frames show monitoring set at RR12 identified on Print 4. Lower four rows of frames record the passing of the secret "defection team" of Cdte. Raul Chibas and Jose Quevedo noted on Print 7. On frame 31 Cdte. Chibas is shown in center...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 83
Image Count:
1
Description:
The principal figure is Cdte. Rene de los Santos, whose command post was above Santiago. Frames 31-33 show the roadblock of Cdte. de los Santos' post on one of the seaside back roads leading toward Siboney and Santiago. Frames 5-7 show a typical puest...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 84
Image Count:
1
Description:
Glimpses of two rebel command posts - small, temporary ones - on the approaches to La Plata, Fidel Castro's headquarters. Frames 4-12 show the station (and bomb shop) of Cdte. Luis "El Guajiro" Crespo at Naranjo. Cdte. Crespo is shown on frame 4 et se...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 85
Image Count:
1
Description:
This is the bomb shop at Cdte. Luis "El Guajiro" Crespo's station (shown on Print 14). Frames in bottom row show welder cutting up bomb shells to make casings for small rebel bombs. The bomb shells are, of course, the remnants of aerial bombs dropped ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 86
Image Count:
1
Description:
Frames 11-33 show Cdte. Raul Chibas touring the perimeters of the rebel-controlled area in the Maffo-Matias-Bijagual-El Corojo-San Pablo de Yao area, looking for potential defectors from government forces. Frames 5-10 show the peloton of Capt. Henriqu...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 88
Image Count:
1
Description:
A potpourri of scenes of "behind rebel lines" daily life in the Santiago-Bayam zone. Frames 4-6 show Lt. Vilo Acuha testing homemade rifle-grenade launcher. (Acuha, then a Dcte., died with Che Guevara in Bolivia.) Frames 14-22 show a typical behind-th...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 89
Image Count:
1
Description:
Cdte. Juan Almeida Bosque, shown here in Frame 23 (Negro officer with beard and sombrero). In Frame 18, et seq. he is shown interrogating a very fat young woman (Frame 19) suspected of being a government informer. Frame 9: group of rebel radio and adm...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 90
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames (4-9) show Melba Hernandez running rebel administrative office set up in abandoned store near Siboney. Frames 10-11: Cdte. Raul Chibas. Frames 22-30: Cdte. Juan Almeida Bosque, the column commander of this zone (slim, hatless Negro officer)...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 91
Image Count:
1
Description:
On the top frames, Cdte. Almeida Bosque and his staff try - and fail - to cross the swollen Yao river in their command jeep. Frames 6-9 show Cdte. Almeida Bosque in front seat of another vehicle. Frames 1-5 show Cdte. Almeida Bosque's wireless station...
