From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 112
Image Count:
1
Description:
These frames show a small-unit, fast-moving rebel attack on El Cobre. Frames 4-13: Capt. Rigoberto Ramirez sights target down in valley at nightfall. Note white towers of El Cobre sanctuary, famous Cuban landmark, visible in distance. Frames 14-15 sho...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 113
Image Count:
1
Description:
These frames show a small-unit, fast-moving rebel attack on El Cobre (see also Print 42.) Frames 11-23 show Capt. Rigoberto Ramirez planning night attack and scanning El Cobre valley from overlooking hilltop. Frames 6-16: rebel unit prepares for attac...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 115
Image Count:
1
Description:
Capt. Rigoberto Ramirez's rebel troop on march above Puerto Boniato. Capt. Ramirez shown in frames 28-29. Note that sound of approaching vehicle brings rebels into ambush positions shown on frames 30-37 (vehicle turned out to be captured rebel jeep.)
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 116
Image Count:
1
Description:
These photos, shot in early fall of 1958, document decisive rebel military breakthrough in its initial stage: all around the Sierra Maestra range government forces are withdrawing, evacuating small, hard-to-defend outposts and minor towns. This sheet ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 117
Image Count:
1
Description:
This sheet shows rebel entry into Las Minas de Bueycito, first town to be seized and held for twenty-four hours by troops of Cdte. Castro's own Columna Nro. Uno (see also Print 46.) Fidel Castro is shown on frames 19-20: this was a historical occasion...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 118
Image Count:
1
Description:
This sheet shows the headquarters unit of Fidel Castro's Columna Uno operating just outside Las Minas de Bueycito (see also Print 47.) Frame 13 et seq.: Fidel's mayordomo-cook, Emilio Moran. Frames 26-37 show significant event: influx of recruits from...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 119
Image Count:
1
Description:
Frames 15-29 show Fidel giving TV sound interview to CBC cameraman Erik Durschmied. Frames 11-13 show the headquarters dentist at La Plata station, Dr. Enrique Borges, working on teeth of Celia Sanchez. Other frames show two rebel personalities: Capt....
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 74
Image Count:
1
Description:
These are "advance rebel positions" photos: they illustrate the guerrillas' new-found comfort and plenty in the "llano" (cf. frames 6-21: veteran guerrilla Lt. Paco Verdecia drinking malta in a small bodega) and their new level of technical competence...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 120
Image Count:
1
Description:
The carretera central below Puerto Boniato shows ample evidence by the fall of 1958 of effective rebel interdiction of highway traffic. Buses and trucks shown here have all been blown up or burned by rebel highway patrols, the so-called bazukeros. Vil...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 122
Image Count:
1
Description:
This shows the sumptuous villa of Jose Aleman, Minister of Education in earlier government of President Carlos Prio Socarras: even in that loose establishment, Minister Aleman was an outstanding corruptionist.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 124
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print features images of the photographer, Andrew St. George, sitting with a group of small peasant boys who watch in fascination as he shows them the workings of his camera (fall, 1958). The boys are under the protection of more than one armed r...
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...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 75
Image Count:
1
Description:
Additional views of advanced command post under Cdte. Rene de los Santos near Santiago. Frames 8-11 show typically effortful activity at rebel motor shop run by lieutenant known as "Caballo Loco" (center, hat) to reactivate stuck vehicles. Other frame...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 76
Image Count:
1
Description:
This is a sheet of Havana sidelights during mid-1958. Top four frames (15-18) show the newsroom of the busy Canal 12, Cuba's (and Latin America's) first all-color station, during early afternoon newscast: newsman on right is Juan Gonzalez, but newsman...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 77
Image Count:
1
Description:
A series of short takes showing rebel positions on perimeter of Sierra stronghold: this one at Maffo, under Capt. Henrique Boronat* (on the bottom rows of frames, Capt. Boronat is always the young officer in broadbrimmed hat on extreme right, with arm...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 78
Image Count:
1
Description:
Rebel forward post over Santiago; this one near La Lata, then Cdte. Juan Almeida Bosque's column command post. It is commanded by Capt. Rigoberto Ramirez (officer shown in hammock in frames 28-29) and its principal function was that of a bombshop and ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 79
Image Count:
1
Description:
Rebel command post of Capt. Eddie Sunol (shown checking supplies on frame 28). Anciano sifting rice is local nutritionist. On Frames 20-21: Lt. Hanibal Hidalgo, at the time photographer's travel aide. Photographer shown with photo mule on Frames 22-23...
