Book II Print 18: Daily life behind rebel lines in the Santiago-Bayam zone

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Title: Book II Print 18: Daily life behind rebel lines in the Santiago-Bayam zone
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: undated
Description: A potpourri of scenes of "behind rebel lines" daily life in the Santiago-Bayam zone. Frames 4-6 show Lt. Vilo Acuha testing homemade rifle-grenade launcher. (Acuha, then a Dcte., died with Che Guevara in Bolivia.) Frames 14-22 show a typical behind-the lines elementary school run by guerrilla command. Rebels began rural "alfabetizacion" program during this period. Frames 27-32 show three captured Batista Army officers who had decided to join the rebels. Cdte. Jose Quevedo is center: Capt. (fnu) Duran is left. The numberless, lower right-hand corner frame shows Cdte. Humberto Sorí Marin, then Rebel Army Judge Advocate General, with Capt. Ernesto Aloma Sabas, chief of Seccion del Café (beard). See also Print 11.
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 1, folder 88

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