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: frames 17-36 show RR12 monitoring station manned by Maria-Luisa Sabas and Joaquin Villarcel. See also Print 3.
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. Villagers help by emptying crippled truck (frame 14).
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 rebel and probably reside at the rebel outpost and safehouse pictured in the back of frame 34, top row. See also Print 55.
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 depict the group of peasant boys to whom St. George was showing his camera in Print 54. Prints 7 through 22 show St. George riding around in a rebel-driven jeep with camera in hand; it is not clear who is taking pictures of him. See also Print 54.
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 frames show rebel patrols on outskirts of Santiago: a foot patrol (18-20) and a jeep patrol halted at the roadside by an approaching government plane overhead (invisible in this photo.) See also Prints 3 and 4.
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 on left, holding teletype sheet, is not "Mike Alonso" as indicated on sign, but the popular Carlos Castaneda. Other frames are entertainment displays and a local nightclub dancer, "La Bongosera."