From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
Circa 1958
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 1
Image Count:
14
Description:
The images of guerrillas in Fidel Castro’s column are engaged in wartime activities and scenes of everyday life. The photographs show the preparation of hand-made bombs in a clandestine bomb shop run by a bearded veteran of the Spanish Civil War; gue...
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
1957 June and Nov, 1959
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 2
Image Count:
9
Description:
There are portraits of individual guerrillas including Fidel Castro, Felipe Guerra Matos (in 1957 and January 1959), as well as the later infamous Manuel Piñeiro, better known as Barba Roja. Piñeiro was chief of Cuba’s domestic intelligence service, ...
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
1958 October - December
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 3
Image Count:
9
Description:
These images document the rebel forces’ policy of taxing the owners of local coffee estates in Oriente on the production and processing of each 100-pound bag of coffee. In one photograph Manuel Boronato, a blonde rebel officer, is shown overseeing th...
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 8
Image Count:
12
Description:
This folder includes images of “Operation Truth,” a campaign on the part of the revolutionary government to show American critics that the Cuban people supported the trial and execution of all intelligence and security forces of the Batista dictatorsh...
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
1959 March 6
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 11
Image Count:
5
Description:
Fidel Castro and U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal had their first face-to-face meeting on March 6, 1959, at Castro's villa in Cojímar. These photographs document that event. In one image an unidentified rebel officer is standing between Bonsal and Ca...
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
1959 May
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 19
Image Count:
8
Description:
These photographs focus on Ernest Hemingway with Fidel Castro at Hemingway’s May 1959 fishing tournament. The images include two shots of Mary and Ernest Hemingway in profile as they watch the boats returning with their catches. In one photograph, C...
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 46, folder 1
Image Count:
4
Description:
The peasants represented in these photographs are engaged in everyday activities such as winnowing corn, standing in line at a local dry goods store, and horseback riding. These peasants probably lived near the 26th of July columns commanded by Fidel...
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 46, folder 2
Image Count:
2
Description:
These photographs were taken during Fidel Castro’s two-week tour of the northeast United States on invitation of the National Press Club. One photograph shows him sitting in a New York City hotel surrounded by 5 women. The notation by St. George on t...
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
1960 September
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 46, Box 3
Image Count:
7
Description:
These photographs document Fidel Castro and his delegation’s September 1960 visit to New York City to attend a meeting at the United Nations where Fidel gave his famous speech announcing the upcoming Literacy Campaign of 1961. The Cuban delegates ult...
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
1960 February
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 46, folder 5
Image Count:
6
Description:
These images document the visit of Vice Premier Anastas Mikoyan to Cuba in February 1960. Ostensibly, Mikoyan was there to inaugurate the traveling exhibit of Soviet culture and products that would be held at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Havana. Als...
