Book IV Print 68: Fidel Castro visiting the Lincoln Memorial

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Manuscripts and Archives > Cuban revolution collection (MS 650) > Series I: Andrew St. George Photographs, Films, and Papers > Photographs > Contact Book IV > Book IV Print 68: Fidel Castro visiting the Lincoln Memorial


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Description

Title
Book IV Print 68: Fidel Castro visiting the Lincoln Memorial
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 April
Description
This print shows Fidel Castro making a visit to the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D.C. In this print, the massive crowd of on-lookers, companions, bodyguards, police and reporters that followed Fidel to the Memorial can be seen as they make their way up the steps, with the reflecting pool and the Washington Monument behind them (see frames 5-13). Fidel Castro made the trip, together with a large entourage of well over a hundred people, on April 14, 1959, in response to the invitation of Jules Dubois, editor of the Chicago Tribune and then president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Fidel remained in the United States for more than two weeks, eventually touring cities on the eastern seaboard such as Boston, Princeton, New Jersey and New York City. For other images of Fidel Castro's trip to Washington and New York, see Prints 55-78 and Contact Book V; for other images of his visit to the Lincoln Memorial, see Prints 55, 58 and 68.
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

Item Location

Repository
Manuscripts and Archives
Call Number
MS 650
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Container / Volume
Box 4, folder 314

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

Identifiers

Orbis Record
614150
Object ID (OID)
10018314

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