From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 625
Image Count:
1
Description:
Randomly organized images on the same print that deal with a number of different events and people. Top frames show Vilma Espín in a televised broadcast of a panel of women who included Loló de la Torriente Brau, a longtime femenina and journalist act...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 623
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of a crowd that has begun to form outside of Celia Sánchez's home in el Vedado, apparently after word has spread that Fidel Castro and his son Fidel Castro Díaz Balart can be found inside. The third set of frames shows him leaving the residence...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 622
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top row of frames shows Fidel Castro speaking on a television screen. The second and third rows of frames show two unidentified Cuban men standing before a counter with a framed poster of José Martí on the wall in the background. The fourth set of fra...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 621
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames show part of a banner hanging from the balcony of a building that demands an end to U.S. aggression against Cuba, in particular, the ending of all bombings and air raids. At the time, it was increasingly common for small, unidentified aircr...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 620
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames show betters lined up at the race track in Havana's Casino Deportivo. Bottom frames show a wheel of fortune at the casino-bar of what appears to be the Havana Hilton. See also Prints 51, 52, 53, 55, 56 and 62.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 619
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames show Fidel Castro, his son, Fidel Castro Díaz Balart, (in white T-shirt) and an unidentified boy with Celia Sánchez at her home in el Vedado. Images depict three fatigue-dressed bodyguards sitting on a couch, as well as a white-haired man i...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 617
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of the interior of Celia Sánchez's el Vedado home where Fidel Castro frequently resided in the early years of the Revolution. Most frames feature a pair of boys. The blonde boy of smaller stature, who wears a T-shirt that reads "Havana Military...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 616
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of crowds of Cubans waiting at an apparent police check point set up at the Rotonda de Marianao, an obelisk marking Havana's city limits with the adjacent city of Marianao. The obelisk honors the achievements of Cuban scientist Carlos J. Finlay...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 615
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of foreign tourists gambling at two different casinos; the top frames were probably taken at the Hotel Nacional while the bottom frames were taken at the Havana Hilton. Very bottom-most frame (corner) shows signs for gamblers indicating that th...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 614
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames depict proceedings at a Revolutionary Tribunal after they were recommissioned in the fall of 1959 by decree of Fidel Castro. All witnesses, accused and judicial officials unidentified. Bottom frames depict foreign tourists gambling at a cas...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 613
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of several black Cuban boys watching events inside a Havana restaurant called "El Arabe," probably located in Habana Vieja. Street children abounded in this area of the capital during the 1950s and were a frequent subject of foreign travel and ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
[1960?]
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 610
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images taken of several businesses in Havana's Barrio Chino, or Chinese quarter, probably in early 1960. Top frames show street peddlers selling books and oranges on la Calle Zanja, or Zanja street. The second and third sets of frames show a typograph...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 609
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of a couple of foreign tourists gambling at an opulently decorated casino, probably located at the Hotel Nacional. The male tourist is wearing a fake beard, apparently as a public affront to the revolutionaries then in power. See also Prints 52...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 608
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of a trial for counterrevolutionary crimes conducted by a Revolutionary Tribunal in Havana. All witnesses, accused and judicial officials unidentified. See Print 55.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 Nov, 1960 March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 607
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames document a student rally on the Escalinata (entrance steps) of the University of Havana. Probably taken in November of 1959 when the university was undergoing the first phase of revolutionary reforms that would initially purge all professor...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 605
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of crowds gathered near the corner of San Rafael Boulevard and El Prado around two signs, one posted by the Partido Socialista Popular and the other apparently anonymous, both urging support for the Revolution.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 Mar, 1960 February
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 604
Image Count:
1
Description:
Landing of two unidentified helicopters at the landing platform directly across from El Morro fortress at the entrance to the Bay of Havana. One of the helicopters carries an unidentified foreigner with light-colored hair, also featured in frame 24 of...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 598
Image Count:
1
Description:
Unidentified Cuban man wearing a business suit and speaking on a street in Centro Habana with the man wearing glasses who appears in Prints 33, 78, 81, 82, and 86. See also Prints 78, 81, 82 and 86.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
[1959 Nov?], [1960 Feb?]
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 597
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames document a student rally on the Escalinata (entrance steps) of the University of Havana. Along the speakers' platform a banner appears with the words "Mes del Recinto" (Month of the Campus). Probably taken in November of 1959 when the unive...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 594
Image Count:
1
Description:
Landing of two unidentified helicopters at the landing platform directly across from El Morro fortress at the entrance to the Bay of Havana. One of the helicopters carries an unidentified foreigner with light-colored hair, featured in frame 24 of this...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 592
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top two rows of frames show Julio Lobo Olavarría, Cuba's wealthiest sugar magnate, giving a speech at what appears to be a press conference as part of a panel of speakers. Bottom frames show an unidentified officer of the 26th of July Movement with lo...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 591
Image Count:
1
Description:
Panel of speakers probably giving a press conference. The panel featured Cuba's wealthiest sugar magnate, Julio Lobo Olavarría (bald man wearing glasses in the middle), and other unidentified speakers. See also Print 33.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 588
Image Count:
1
Description:
Commander William Morgan touring the state-owned frog farm that he operated for INRA in the province of Pinar del Río. Other farm employees (for example, in striped shirt) and possible INRA representative (in white guayabera) unidentified.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 587
Image Count:
1
Description:
William Morgan and various unidentified officials, probably representatives of INRA, visiting the frog farm run by Morgan in the province of Pinar del Río. Top frames show men holding the bull frogs in their final stage of life, due for processing; mi...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 586
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames show crowd scenes from the May 1st, 1960 celebration and rally held in the Plaza Cívica of Havana. Bottom frames depict unidentified Cuban employees at the frog farm operated by William Morgan for INRA in the province of Pinar del Río. The ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 585
Image Count:
1
Description:
Commander William Morgan at the state-owned frog farm that Morgan operated in the province of Pinar del Río. Here Morgan shows off the tadpole cultivation ditches he purportedly designed and dug himself at the farm.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 January-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 537
Image Count:
1
Description:
Phyllis Minoff, a New York honeymooner whose trip to Cuba St. George was covering forTime magazine. Mrs. Minoff visits a public school where children are shown wearing the new uniform of the Revolution. Second and third set of frames show an unidentif...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 533-534
Image Count:
2
Description:
Unidentified wealthy Cuban businessman in his office, seen amidst several members of his staff in a general office area. This man may have been the subject of a story St. George did with another reporter. It is likely that the reporter has interviewed...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 531
Image Count:
1
Description:
Unidentified wealthy Cuban businessman in his office, seen amidst several members of his staff in a general office area. This man may have been the subject of a story St. George did with another reporter. It is likely that the reporter has interviewed...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 530
Image Count:
1
Description:
Anastas Mikoyan on a provincial excursion, possibly to Santa Clara province. Frames 18-21 show René Vallejo, director of the Institute for Agrarian Reform in Oriente Province, standing between two officials, one military and one civilian. Crowds of ch...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 528-529
Image Count:
2
Description:
Unidentified wealthy Cuban businessman in his office with a member of his staff seen answering the phone behind him. This man is being interviewed by another reporter while St. George takes his picture. It is likely that the reporter has interviewed t...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 514
Image Count:
1
Description:
Mikoyan and Fidel Castro as they make their way to the buffet table at the Presidential Palace during a formal state reception held in honor of the Soviet Premier's visit. Two unidentified officials in civilian dress stand behind Fidel Castro: one is ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 513
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of Soviet Premier Anastas Mikoyan, accompanied by a translator (standing to his right, frame 16) and bodyguards as he arrives at the Presidential Palace for a state reception during his February 1960 visit. Top row of frames 18-22 shows Mikoyan...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 512
Image Count:
1
Description:
Private lunch with Soviet Premier Anastas Mikoyan, probably taken on the same day that Castro and Mikoyan signed the first historic Soviet trade agreement with Cuba, worth $100,000,000. Sitting next to Mikoyan from left of the frame to the right are F...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 511
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of Soviet Vice Premier Anastas Mikoyan and Prime Minister Fidel Castro as they leave the opulent, expropriated mansion that became the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (MINREX) on Havana's Avenida de los Presidentes. Castro and Mikoyan had j...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 510
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of Soviet Vice Premier Anastas Mikoyan and Prime Minister Fidel Castro signing the Soviet Union's first historic trade package with Cuba, representing $100,000,000 in trade. An unidentified, well-shaven man with greased hair stands above them, ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 508
Image Count:
2
Description:
Soviet Vice Premier Mikoyan arriving at the Havana airport. He wears the "traditional" peasant hat of yarey that is given to foreign tourists upon arrival in Havana by official greeters. See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 505
Image Count:
1
Description:
The initial moments of Soviet Premier Anastas Mikoyan's arrival in Havana in early February 1960. Frames 6-7 show Fidel Castro with Antonio Nuñez Jiménez, the first director of INRA (Instituto Nacional de Reformia Agraria) at his side; frames 8-9 show...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 503
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of reporters and Cuban officials grouped together in the entrance of an unidentified modern building, possibly in the United States. They appear to be waiting for the arrival of an important person, possibly Fidel Castro.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 498
Image Count:
1
Description:
Overviews of the reception for Soviet Vice Premier Mikoyan at the Presidential Palace in February 1960. Last frames correspond with footage of the first conference of Latin American literature, sponsored by the government later that spring. For images...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 486-495
Image Count:
10
Description:
Latin American visitors and writers who participated in the first conference on literature hosted by the Cuban government and held in spring 1960. The conference was the work of Lunes, the literary supplement to Revolución, the official newspaper of F...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 483
Image Count:
2
Description:
Contains two sheets. Phyllis and Marvin Minoff, a honeymooning couple whose trip to Cuba St. George documented forTime magazine, at the Casino Deportivo, a sports and recreation park on the outskirts of Havana. Frames 21-24 show them chatting with the...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 481
Image Count:
3
Description:
Contains three sheets. These prints depict a large multistory building complex, part of which appears to be under construction. Included in the images are several frames showing the display of artillery batteries used by the United States military. Th...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 480
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top row of images (frames 27-31) show a float during daytime Carnival parade sponsored by a local company that produced a brand of mineral water called "la Cotorra." The float featured dancing girls, as well as a large banner announcing an American co...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 479
Image Count:
4
Description:
Contains four sheets. Images of schoolboys preparing to take their afternoon meal at the government school at former Camp Columbia, renamed Ciudad Libertad, in the company of a female teacher or administrator. Other images show the boys being loaded o...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 478
Image Count:
5
Description:
Contains three full sheets and two half sheets. These images depict a construction crew at work on a new hotel in Santiago de Cuba, high in the Sierra Maestra overlooking the city. A large billboard announces that it is a public works project funded b...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 477
Image Count:
3
Description:
Contains three sheets. Images of schoolboys practicing military-style marches at the new school built on former military base at Camp Columbia, renamed Ciudad Libertad. Camp Columbia had been the principal military operations and intelligence depot fo...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 476
Image Count:
3
Description:
Contains three sheets. Images of schoolboys practicing military-style marches at the new school built on former military base at Camp Columbia, renamed Ciudad Libertad. Camp Columbia had been the principal military operations and intelligence depot fo...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 475
Image Count:
3
Description:
Contains three sheets. Images of schoolboys practicing military-style marches at the new school built on former military base at Camp Columbia, renamed Ciudad Libertad. Camp Columbia had been the principal military operations and intelligence depot fo...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 473
Image Count:
3
Description:
Contains two sheets. Images of Phyllis and Marvin Minoff as they board a plane to Varadero beach from Havana. Bottom set of images shows the empty lobby at the hotel in Varadero and the honeymooners enjoying their food at a cafeteria, probably located...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 472
Image Count:
2
Description:
Contains one sheet and one strip. Images here are from three separate events. Top images (frames 4-14) show Vice Premier Anastas Mikoyan's helicopter as it returns to Havana from a trip to the provinces during his official visit to Cuba that began on ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 471
Image Count:
1
Description:
Scenes from the first literary conference organized by the revolutionary government. The conference was organized, in part, by Carlos Franqui and other contributing editors of Lunes, a literary and cultural supplement to the official state newspaper, ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 470
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print shows Phyllis and Marvin Minoff enjoying Carnival in Havana and a meal at an opulent restaurant. The absence of tourists, as well as all other diners, is striking, as the entire wait staff of the restaurant dotes on the one occupied table. ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 469
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top four frames show Phyllis and Marvin Minoff lounging on a seaside dock at Varadero beach. Bottom two rows feature images of foreign tourists arriving at Havana international airport where they are greeted by a trio of musicians and a woman offering...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 468
Image Count:
4
Description:
Contains two sheets and two strips. Honeymooners featured in St. George'sTime magazine story highlighting the decline of foreign tourism in Cuba. Phyllis and Marvin Minoff embark on a deep-sea fishing trip and take a small plane there. The plane is em...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 467
Image Count:
2
Description:
Scenes from sessions of the first conference on Latin American literature organized by sectors of the revolutionary government. Present are Vilma Espín, Raúl Castro's wife and president of the soon-to-be founded Federación de Mujeres Cubanas and Nicol...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 465
Image Count:
2
Description:
Contains two sheets. Phyllis and Marvin Minoff at the beach resort pictured in Print 21. Frames 15 and 16 of the second sheet are particularly significant because they show two very young teenage boys who are carrying automatic weapons, ostensibly bec...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 464
Image Count:
2
Description:
Contains two sheets. The Minoffs at a beach resort in Varadero. A series of photographs shows them examining what appears to be a souvenir item of a sculpted garza or type of crane common to Cuba's mangroves. The man who is showing them the souvenirs ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 463
Image Count:
3
Description:
Contains three sheets. The Minoffs walking on the Malecón, or sea wall, after doing some souvenir shopping in Havana. Phyllis Minoff carries a small, handcrafted souvenir doll in one hand. See also Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 21, 22...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 460
Image Count:
2
Description:
Honeymooning couple, Phyllis and Marvin Minoff, whom St. George accompanied to Cuba for a story on the decline in foreign tourism. Here they are seen cavorting at Varadero beach. Very bottom images show the Minoffs at the Hotel Caprí casino. See also ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 458
Image Count:
1
Description:
Scenes from the first conference on Latin American literature organized by sectors of Cuba's revolutionary government. Present are Vilma Espín, Raúl Castro's wife and president of the soon-to-be founded Federación de Mujeres Cubanas. Speakers include ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 452
Image Count:
3
Description:
Contains three sheets. Images of children on the playground at the newly constructed school, "Ciudad Libertad," on the former military base of Camp Columbia, Havana. Camp Columbia had been the site of the Sergeants' Revolt, led by Fulgencio Batista, a...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 449
Image Count:
5
Description:
Contains three full sheets and two partial pages. Top and bottom rows of images on one page show boys at the newly inaugurated "Ciudad Escolar Libertad," a school for children of impoverished backgrounds that was founded on the grounds of the previous...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 448
Image Count:
1
Description:
The opening session of the first literary conference organized by the revolutionary government. Present are Vilma Espín, Raúl Castro's wife and president of the soon-to-be founded Federación de Mujeres Cubanas. Seated in the audience is Nicolás Guillé...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 474
Image Count:
1
Description:
Contains one full and one half sheet. Top frames show foreign tourists being greeted by official, singing greeters as they descend the stairs of a plane upon arrival in Havana. Images in bottom four rows show the Minoffs lounging poolside at the Hotel...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 January-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 447
Image Count:
1
Description:
The top four rows of frames show foreign tourists arriving at Havana's international airport where they are greeted by a singing threesome and an official greeter who is giving away woven hats made from yarey, considered a traditional item of clothing...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 446
Image Count:
3
Description:
Contains three sheets. Government building forming part of the new complex of buildings that comprise the ministries of the revolutionary government as of 1960, located in the old La Plaza Cívica, later called La Plaza de la Revolución.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 445
Image Count:
2
Description:
Contains two full sheets of prints. Images of children during morning assembly at the newly constructed school at Camp Columbia, the famous military base originally founded by the U.S. military during the first U.S. occupation of Cuba (1898-1902). Cam...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 391-394
Image Count:
4
Description:
Images of Fidel Castro's visit to a state-owned farming cooperative in the Sierra Maestra of Oriente province organized by INRA, the Instituto de Reforma Agraria. Founded in May of 1959, INRA confiscated lands belonging to former members of the dictat...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 389
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top four rows of frames show a student demonstration in favor of the government and continued policy of executing citizens charged with counterrevolution. Many of the signs held by the students show their affiliation to the "Sección Estudiantil M. 26-...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 388
Image Count:
1
Description:
Frames 8 and 9 in the top row of images represent a fashion show taking place in the patio of a large hotel, possibly the Havana Hilton. The models are using the countertop of the bar as a catwalk. Succeeding photographs show various members of a Cuba...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 387
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top three rows show the toll booths at the entrance to the national highway heading east out of Havana, today known as Vía Blanca. No one appears to be manning the toll booths and someone has placed a sign on one of them that reads: "FIDEL NUESTRA HAM...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 380
Image Count:
1
Description:
Various images taken at a workers' parade held in Havana's Civic Plaza (later called the Plaza de la Revolución) celebrating labor unions, peasants, militias and the Revolutionary Armed Forces' unconditional support for the government. Among the march...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 378
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images documenting a workers' parade held in Havana's Civic Plaza (later called the Plaza de la Revolución) celebrating labor unions, peasants, militias and the Revolutionary Armed Forces' unconditional support for the government. In frames 28 and 29 ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 377
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images documenting a workers' parade held in Havana's Civic Plaza (later called the Plaza de la Revolución) celebrating labor unions, peasants, militias and the Revolutionary Armed Forces' unconditional support for the government. Frames 25, 26 27, 28...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 370-376
Image Count:
8
Description:
These contact sheets document the trial by Revolutionary Tribunal in Cuba of two U.S. fighter pilots who had served in World War II and who organized a counterrevolutionary guerrilla force, apparently under the cover of the CIA, for the purpose of top...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959?
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 308
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print appears to show Fidel Castro being interviewed by members of the international press, probably before television cameras. The two reporters seated to his immediate right have Spanish surnames (Agustín Tamaigo? and Juan Quintal?), although t...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 286-300
Image Count:
15
Description:
These prints relate to the trial by Revolutionary Tribunal of an unidentified U.S. citizen, possibly one of two CIA agents who regularly reported to Batista's intelligence network known as SIM [Servicio de Inteligencia Militar], under cover provided b...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 283
Image Count:
1
Description:
According to St. George's description notes on this sheet, the top and bottom frames depict a group of guerrillas trained and financed by Fidel Castro, with Ernest "Che" Guevara overseeing operations. The guerrillas' purpose was eventually to topple t...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 282
Image Count:
1
Description:
Taken in the first days after the fall of Batista and the assumption of power by revolutionary forces, these images appear to show the peaceful transfer of power of a major military base, probably Camp Columbia, to revolutionary forces headed by Camil...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 281
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of a private meeting between two men, one of whom is apparently Colonel Hubert F. Julian, a U.S. registered arms dealer also known as "The Black Eagle." St. George reported that Julian was in Havana to broker arms deals as part of Fidel Castro'...
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...
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 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 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 23-29
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 247-264
Image Count:
18
Description:
This collection of prints documents Fidel Castro's trip to Venezuela that began on January 23, 1959, with his arrival at Maiqueta airport in Caracas (see Book 3). Although revolutionary forces had just taken power in Cuba, Fidel Castro made his visit ...
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
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 179
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images taken inside an aircraft after dark. None of the passengers is identified. Frame 4 shows a man wearing the uniform of a Batista officer speaking to another man, probably an American, wearing a plain white shirt.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 1-8
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 172
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print depicts Fidel Castro and his escolta as Fidel boards a British-made helicopter captured at the time of the surrender of Batista's forces and requisitioned as a means for hastening his trip to Havana, where he formally announced the victory ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 2-8
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 171
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print features shots of Fidel's victory motorcade as it makes its way along the national highway to Havana. Top frames 33-34 show the front view of his car in what appears to be the early morning hours, as well as Fidel emerging from a middle-cla...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
[1959 January 1, 2?]
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 135
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print shows the destruction of civilian dwellings by Batista's air force bombing campaign in the weeks leading up to the final collapse and partial surrender of the dictator's high command. Frames 11-12 show a Catholic priest, probably a Francisc...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 125
Image Count:
1
Description:
This sheet features images of the photographer, Andrew St. George, as he relaxes with peasant children and rebel soldiers guarding a safehouse and rebel outpost in an isolated rural area at the foot of the Sierra Maestra (fall, 1958). Frames 26-30 dep...