Book X Print 49: Fidel Castro and Herbert Matthews; military base; Fidel Castro with members of Batista air force

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Title: Book X Print 49: Fidel Castro and Herbert Matthews; military base; Fidel Castro with members of Batista air force
Creator: From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Contributor: From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
From the Collection: Stone, David C.
Published / Created: 1959 January
Description: Images showing Fidel Castro as he leaves an impromptu meeting with Herbert Matthews and his wife Nancie (row one) in the days following the fall of the Batista government and the triumph of revolutionary forces. Subsequent images show events taking place at a military base littered with empty wooden boxes of ammunition (frames 23 and 24) and housing a number of military planes, a tank and trucks. Fidel Castro appears in bottom three rows with unidentified guerrillas speaking to uniformed members of Batista's airforce as they all squat or kneel on the ground. Frame 34 shows three unidentified guerrilla officers with a man wearing a white guayabera and linen pants. See also Prints 32 and 34.
Provenance: Purchased from Andrew St. George in 1969 and from David C. Stone in 1970. Gift of Adolfas Mekas, 2010. Transferred from the Latin American Collection Curator, 2016.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Multiple languages

Repository

Manuscripts and Archives

Call Number

MS 650

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Container / Volume

Box 7, folder 761

Access: Public
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Citation: Cuban Revolution Collection (MS 650). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.