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:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 136
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro and troops taking over a Cuban military air base, probably located in Oriente, and commandeering a military tank. Herbert Matthews of theNew York Times can be seen in suit and tie standing behind Fidel Castro in frame 4 of this print. Mat...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 137
Image Count:
1
Description:
Contains two prints. The first print shows damages caused to civilian housing by Batista's air force bombing raids during the last weeks of 1958 before the collapse of the regime. The second print shows rebels riding on a tank followed by the jeep in ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 138
Image Count:
1
Description:
This is the first print that traces Fidel's victory caravan as it made its way to Havana. At various points, Fidel made up for time lost on the way to greet cheering and grateful citizens by taking a British helicopter for portions of the route that h...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 139
Image Count:
1
Description:
Taken in the very first days following the collapse of the dictatorship and the rebels' seizure of power, this print shows Fidel being crowded by guerrillas and well-wishers as he proceeds in his victory caravan to Havana. Frames 13-27 show Fidel in p...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 140
Image Count:
1
Description:
Taken in the very first days following the collapse of the dictatorship and the rebels' seizure of power, this print shows Fidel Castro and his forces as they take over a military air base once held by Batista's air force. Standing with Fidel in frame...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 141
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images documenting the victory caravan of Fidel Castro and his guerrillas as it made its way along Cuba's national highway from Oriente to Havana in the first week of January 1959. Here Fidel Castro is seen standing between vehicles in the center of t...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 142
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print features various scenes from the rebel takeover of a military barracks or cuartel, probably in Oriente province. Frames 8-17 show a white-robed priest wearing a large cross around his neck talking before a large tank, with the military inst...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 2
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 143
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames show Fidel meeting with and speaking to a reporter in the first days after the rebel victory at the airport in Camagüey where he awaited the arrival of Manuel Urrutia, the man whom Fidel Castro had designated Provisional President of Cuba a...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 2
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 144
Image Count:
1
Description:
These images document the arrival of Manuel Urrutia Lleó, the man whom Fidel Castro had designated Provisional President of Cuba as early as 1957, at the Camagüey airport. Urrutia apparently arrived by the plane named Guaímaro, formerly used by Batist...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 1
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 145
Image Count:
1
Description:
Taken on January 1, 1959, and stamped January 7, 1959, on the reverse side, this print documents the first victory speech given by Fidel Castro upon the fall and flight from Cuba of the dictator Fulgencio Batista. Having taken the reins of power in th...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 146
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print shows Fidel Castro as he prepares to deliver a radio address from a transmission post located on the former base of Batista's air force in Oriente. Standing with him in frames 36 and 37 is Armando Hart (to the right, wearing dark shirt). Pr...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 1
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 147
Image Count:
1
Description:
Taken on January 1, 1959, and stamped January 7, 1959, on the reverse side, this print documents the first victory speech given by Fidel Castro upon the fall and flight from Cuba of the dictator Fulgencio Batista. Having taken the reins of power in th...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 148
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of the rebel takeover of an unidentified provincial city in Oriente and its surrounding military establishments, including the bombed-out shell of a rural guard post whose façade reads "Cuartel General Borrero. Esc[uadrón] 16 G[uardia] R[ural]"...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 151
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print shows rebel officers and soldiers lounging in the driveway and conversing with foreign reporters outside the house where Fidel Castro is granting an interview to a Cuban television reporter on route to Havana in the first days after the fal...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 152
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print shows members of Fidel's personal bodyguard unit guarding the gate of a house at which he is staying along the national highway of Camagüey as his motorcade made its way from Oriente to Havana in the first days of January 1959. Frames 18-36...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 153
Image Count:
1
Description:
Four frames of two rebels guarding the exterior of a private home, presumably where Fidel Castro was granting reporters an interview in the first days of January 1959. One of the rebels appears quite old, with graying hair and wrinkled skin, an unusua...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 154
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of Fidel Castro's motorcade as it made its way along the national highway in the victorious march to Havana. These images were taken as Fidel stopped his car (shown in frames 20, 29-34) to greet a priest, a nun and an opulently dressed lay woma...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 155
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of Fidel Castro's motorcade as it made its way along the national highway in the victorious march to Havana. Here Fidel speaks to a well-dressed civilian couple while surrounded by rebel soldiers. Australian pines line both sides of the road in...
