From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 616
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of crowds of Cubans waiting at an apparent police check point set up at the Rotonda de Marianao, an obelisk marking Havana's city limits with the adjacent city of Marianao. The obelisk honors the achievements of Cuban scientist Carlos J. Finlay, the discoverer of the cause of yellow fever, and takes the shape of a giant needle. The columned building in the background of several images is the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro," one of the hemisphere's oldest schools of art, founded in 1818.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 617
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of the interior of Celia Sánchez's el Vedado home where Fidel Castro frequently resided in the early years of the Revolution. Most frames feature a pair of boys. The blonde boy of smaller stature, who wears a T-shirt that reads "Havana Military Academy," is the son of Fidel Castro, named Fidel Castro Díaz Balart. Celia Sánchez appears in a printed blouse and white button earrings in several frames, alongside Fidel Castro and other unidentified bearded bodyguard (with his back to the camera) who appears in Print 60. Print also includes a set of nighttime pictures taken along the mall of El Prado. See also Prints 60 and 64.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 619
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames show Fidel Castro, his son, Fidel Castro Díaz Balart, (in white T-shirt) and an unidentified boy with Celia Sánchez at her home in el Vedado. Images depict three fatigue-dressed bodyguards sitting on a couch, as well as a white-haired man in a business suit whose back is to the camera. There are two images taken from the balcony that show a boy and then a woman who are attempting to photograph the boys as they play with a radio on the balcony of the house. Middle and bottom frames show part of El Prado in downtown Havana, as well as a sign painted on a wall that has been hand-mounted in a park. The sign reads "¡Viva el primer aniversario de la Revolución Cubana! Partido Socialista Popular (Long live the first anniversary of the Cuban Revolution! Popular Socialist Party)." Bottom frames show a Cuban-Chinese taxi driver standing by his car in front of the headquarters of the Alianza Nueva Democracia China. See also Prints 58 and 64.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 620
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames show betters lined up at the race track in Havana's Casino Deportivo. Bottom frames show a wheel of fortune at the casino-bar of what appears to be the Havana Hilton. See also Prints 51, 52, 53, 55, 56 and 62.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 621
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames show part of a banner hanging from the balcony of a building that demands an end to U.S. aggression against Cuba, in particular, the ending of all bombings and air raids. At the time, it was increasingly common for small, unidentified aircraft to run sabotage and bombing raids from bases in Florida into Cuban territory. Beginning in the late fall of 1959, targeted sites included sugar mills and other facilities within the province of Havana. The second set of frames shows betters lined up at the race track in Havana's Casino Deportivo. The last three rows of frames depict foreign tourists gambling at a casino, probably located in the Hotel Nacional. See also Prints 51, 52, 53, 55, 56 and 61.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 622
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top row of frames shows Fidel Castro speaking on a television screen. The second and third rows of frames show two unidentified Cuban men standing before a counter with a framed poster of José Martí on the wall in the background. The fourth set of frames shows an unidentified man smoking at the entrance of the Havana Hilton Hotel. The final frame shows a militiaman frisking a man over a sink in a bathroom with another guard pointing a pistol into the air behind him. For more images of the man being searched, see Print 80.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 623
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of a crowd that has begun to form outside of Celia Sánchez's home in el Vedado, apparently after word has spread that Fidel Castro and his son Fidel Castro Díaz Balart can be found inside. The third set of frames shows him leaving the residence and making his way through the crowd to his car. Final set of images, taken before Fidel's departure, shows the end of lunch depicted in Prints 58 and 60 and the arrival of a new, unidentified guerrilla who has apparently come to pick up Fidel from the home. Top frames include a randomly inserted image of foreign tourists at a hotel casino. See also Prints 58 and 60.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 625
Image Count:
1
Description:
Randomly organized images on the same print that deal with a number of different events and people. Top frames show Vilma Espín in a televised broadcast of a panel of women who included Loló de la Torriente Brau, a longtime femenina and journalist active since the 1920s and E. Lina Milanés. The second set of frames and very bottom set of frames depict betters at a pelea de gallos or cockfighting ring. Others show Fidel speaking on television. See also Prints 67 and 81.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 626
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of a televised panel of women leaders. Photographs center on Vilma Espín, leader of the underground resistance in Oriente after the 1957 assassination of Frank País during the anti-Batista war, wife of Raúl Castro and future founder of the Federación de Mujeres Cubanas, a mass organization introduced in 1961. Hidden outside the frame of the camera is Loló de la Torriente, a longtime feminist and respective journalist active since the 1920s whose name plate appears on the table next to E. Lina Milanés, a gray-haired woman sitting to the immediate right of Vilma Espín. The woman to the left of Vilma Espín remains unidentified. See also Prints 66 and 81.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 627
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of a young batistiano being guarded as he lies covered in a blanket on the backseat of the vehicle transporting him to his trial by a Revolutionary Tribunal in the Cabaña fortress of Havana. Bottom rows of frames show signs posted at the Western Union on Obispo Street in Old Havana encouraging customers not to cable money outside of the country as an act of solidarity with the Revolution and national development. Frames 9 and 10 show the steps outside the U.S. Embassy in Havana.