From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 92
Image Count:
1
Description:
Sentry duty in the immediate vicinity of Fidel Castro's headquarters at La Plata and other headquarters services were performed by this peloton de mujeres shown in frames 7-25. Frames 26-36 show Dr. Bernabe Ordaz, one of the senior rebel army medicos,...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 95
Image Count:
1
Description:
These are faces of Fidel Castro's headquarters staff at La Plata in the fall of 1958. Frames 2-7: Cdte. Luis "El Guajiro" Crespo. Frame 9: Fidel's clerical secretary-assistant, Antonio Llibre. Frame 10: Fidel's chief cook and majordomo, Emilio Moran. ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 96
Image Count:
1
Description:
Personalities at Fidel Castro's La Plata headquarters. Frames 24-27: Fidel Castro. Frames 6-16, 18-19: Teresita Carmon, a courier. Frames 3-5: Pablo "El Veguero," a headquarters aide. Man with beret: name unknown.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 97
Image Count:
1
Description:
Faces and groups photographed at Fidel Castro's La Plata headquarters in the early fall of 1958. Top four frames on right (34-37): Dr. Faustino Perez, a commandante then newly retired from his assignment of coordinator of urban underground activities ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 99
Image Count:
2
Description:
Cdte. Fidel Castro, photographed at La Plata headquarters in the early fall of 1958. Note frames 8-13 show characteristic bit of daily business: Fidel brought a dispatch (by unidentified local messenger) and reads it with typical concentration. Frames...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 72
Image Count:
1
Description:
This depicts the sort of guerrilla unit that came into existence in 1958, during the second year of civil war, when the rebels gradually expanded their zone of operations: a perimeter unit near Santiago, marking the extent of the Castro forces advance...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 100
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro inside rebel communications center, under command of very efficient officer, Cdte. Waldo Fernandez (frames 9-12, et seq.). This radio tower had several call signs - RR1, i.e. "Radio Rebelde Uno," also RR7; by the fall of 1958 (date of thi...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 101
Image Count:
1
Description:
Frames 4-6 are a period document: the rebel forces' radio propaganda, psychological warfare and intelligence staff at La Plata headquarters in the early fall of 1958. Woman seated right foreground is Violeta Casals, Radio Rebelde's famous woman announ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 102
Image Count:
1
Description:
This sheet shows only sound-on-film, hour-long TV interview granted by Fidel Castro in Sierra Maestra. The cameraman, Erik Durschmied of Montreal, managed, together with this photographer, to smuggle a full Auricon sound rig into rebel headquarters at...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 103
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro at La Plata headquarters in early fall of 1958 giving TV sound interview to CBC cameraman Erik Durschmied. Some of the frames (16, 29) show Fidel consulting his (English-language) notes during interview; most of the other frames show him ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 104
Image Count:
1
Description:
This sheet was photographed along the approach route to Fidel Castro's headquarters near La Plata. Lt. Vilo Acuna testing his homemade rebel rifle grenade launcher (frames 3-10; See also Print 18.). Frames 12-18: Rebel requisitioned road grader with i...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 105
Image Count:
1
Description:
Frames 25-28 show Cdte. Luis "El Guajiro" Crespo at his bomb shop (see also Prints 14 and 15.) Frames 17-20: Celia Sanchez. Frames 9-14: This is Fidel Castro's place of work in headquarters hut where he had only desk ever used by Fidel during two-year...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 107
Image Count:
1
Description:
Andrew St. George at wayside halt while on the march among rebel outposts in the vicinity of Puerto Boniato. Photographer's travel aide, Lt. Hanibal Hidalgo, is shown on frames 27-30. Rebel organizer Victor Boronat is shown playing guitar on frames 2-...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 108
Image Count:
1
Description:
Rebel platoon on march among heights controlling the carretera nacional above El Cobre sanctuary (frames 5-8). Unit commander Capt. Rigoberto Ramirez is shown in center of frame 14 (long beard, field cap, cartridge belt). Suspicious wayfarer, intercep...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 109
Image Count:
1
Description:
Rebel patrols combing approach area to Siboney, overlooking Santiago. Column commander Cdte. Rene de los Santos is shown in frames 22-23: smiling officer in center. When these pictures were taken, the landscape was of key significance, for it indicate...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 73
Image Count:
1
Description:
The first frames here (6-12) depict, much as Print 2 does, an advanced perimeter rebel post near Santiago, this one commanded by Cdte. Rene de los Santos (Frame 7, center, long raincoat) operating a radio transmission facility (RR12, that is Radio Reb...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 110
Image Count:
1
Description:
These shots were made in the early fall of 1958 to document astonishing rebel advances, and government military withdrawals. A guerrilla patrol is shown here playing jukebox at road-side halt on the march above Puerto Boniato. For Fidel's faithful, ju...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 111
Image Count:
1
Description:
Interrogation of suspect (see also Print 38). Capt. Rigoberto Ramirez's rebel troop unit on the march above El Cobre. They come under fire from medium mortar, apparently fired by government unit stationed downhill near El Cobre: phosphorus shells igni...
