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 by the Gobierno Revolucionario and it includes the slogan, "Revolution is to build."
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 onto trucks for transport to another site by members of the army. The images are striking because they reveal the poverty of the students, most of whom are barefoot. See also Print 2, 6, 9, 32, 33, and 34.
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 company's financing of a building to be constructed in the area of Centro Habana. These images were taken during the daytime, probably early evening hours. The second to fifth rows show the Minoffs enjoying poolside comforts at the Hotel Capri while on their honeymoon in Havana. Frames 5-6 of the bottom row show the Minoffs at a hotel pool in Varadero beach. For more images of the Minoffs, see Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 25, 26, 30, 31, 37, 41, 42 and 94.
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. They were probably used when the United States intervened in Cuba's last war for independence against Spain (1895-1898), often characterized by United States historians as the "Spanish-American War." The artillery batteries are located in a park, possibly adjacent to the building complex. Also evident is St. George's documentation of one of the first signs to appear in Cuba that used quotations from the works of the nineteenth-century nationalist José Martí as part of a state campaign to politicize the landscape with billboards. Quotations like this one soon became standard fare, although they were still a novelty in 1960. This one reads, "Toda la vida es deber. -José Martí (All of life is a duty.-José Martí)." In the left-hand corner of the sign is the word "Municipio," that is, confirmation that it was made by a government agency. This again would become the order of the day in 1960 as all nongovernment publicity or self-expression through public signs would become impermissible.
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 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 Cuban Minister of Sports while enjoying a car race. For other images of the Minoffs at the car race, see Prints 8 and 42; for other images of the Minoffs on their honeymoon, see Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 25, 26, 30, 31, 37, 41 and 42.
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 worn by Cuban peasants, or guajiros. The greeters formed part of a revolutionary government program to encourage foreign tourism to the island and market symbols of Cuba's newfound sense of national pride as part of the package. Bottom two rows of images show the Minoffs, a honeymooning couple whom St. George accompanied to Cuba for aTime magazine story on the decline of foreign tourism to Cuba during the early period of the Revolution's radicalization (January to March 1960). For images of the Minoffs, see also Prints 1, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 37, 39, 41, 42 and 94. For images of tourists arriving at the airport, see also Prints 26 and 31.
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 of the conference, see also Prints 5, 15, 23, 24, 28, 43-52. For images of Mikoyan's visit, see Prints 29, 41, 56, 57, 58, 61-67, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 80, 83, 92, 93, 101, 102, 106, and Contact Book VIII.
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 Guillén, Cuba's future poet laureate and a longtime member of the Communist Party (known as the Partido Socialista Popular from the 1930s through the early 1960s). Speakers include Miguel Angel Asturias, the Guatemalan writer who would win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967, as well as Pablo Neruda, the great Chilean poet, also a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1971. 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, Revolución. Lunes was later eliminated in 1961 for taking positions on the role and nature of cultural freedoms contrary to those espoused by government leaders, especially Fidel Castro. See also Prints 15, 23, 24, 28, 43-52 and 55.